Longino, Helen (2021) Naturalism? What Naturalism? Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 95. pp. 140-157.
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Naturalism is often defined by reference to what it is not. The non-naturalisms to which naturalism is contrasted are a heterogeneous bunch. And what it is important not to be is a function of the particular concerns of a philosophical culture at a particular time. Most recently naturalism was taken to be science-based analysis, reflecting a turn away from so-called armchair philosophizing. A survey of the sciences relevant to epistemology supports the pessimistic conclusion that none of them is ready to replace or even play a major role in informing philosophical epistemology. The lecture proposes that naturalism in epistemology takes empirical subjects as model cognitive agents, and that epistemic norms are best thought of as sedimented conventions rather than as transcendent rules.
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Keywords: | naturalism, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science, convention | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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Depositing User: | Professor Helen Longino | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2021 05:10 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2021 05:10 | ||||||
Item ID: | 19917 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association | ||||||
Publisher: | American Philosophical Association | ||||||
Official URL: | https://www.apaonline.org/ | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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Date: | November 2021 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 140-157 | ||||||
Volume: | 95 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19917 |
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