Naturalism and anti-naturalism in contemporary philosophy of science

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences

Science Friction: Phenomenology, Naturalism and Cognitive Science

Recent years have seen growing evidence of a fruitful engagement between phenomenology and cognitive science. This paper confronts an in-principle problem that stands in the way of this (perhaps unlikely) intellectual coalition, namely the fact that a tension exists between the transcendentalism that characterizes phenomenology and the naturalism that accompanies cognitive science. After articu...

Heidegger on Science and Naturalism

Joseph Rouse Wesleyan University Heidegger’s reputation in the Anglophone philosophical world suggests that he was unsympathetic to the natural sciences, and generally unconcerned with the philosophy of science. Even among those who know his work, philosophy of science is not usually considered central to Heidegger, nor is he seen as a significant contributor to philosophy of science. This diss...

Naturalism, Science and the Supernatural

There is overwhelming agreement amongst naturalists that a naturalistic ontology should not allow for the possibility of supernatural entities. I argue, against this prevailing consensus, that naturalists have no proper basis to oppose the existence of supernatural entities. Naturalism is characterized, following Leiter and Rea, as a position which involves a primary commitment to scientific me...

Naturalism and social science. A post-empiricist philosophy of social science

ability to pay professional fees. The author has some interesting observations on the "culture lag" between popular beliefs about dental care and the state of opinion in the profession itself. The layman may not be aware of changes of theories and opinions amongst dentists and clings to "facts" which have become outdated. The theory of "focal infection" arising from Hunter's work in 1910 provid...