Arroyo, Raoni and Morganti, Matteo (2025) Naturalistic Metaphysics and the Parity Thesis: Why Scientific Realism Doesn’t Lead to Realism about Metaphysics. [Preprint]
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In recent work, Nina Emery has defended the view that, in the context of naturalistic metaphysics, one should maintain the same epistemic attitude towards science and metaphysics. That is, naturalists who are scientific realists ought to be realists about metaphysics as well; and naturalists who are antirealists about science should also be antirealists about metaphysics. We call this the ‘parity thesis’. This paper suggests that the parity thesis is widely, albeit often implicitly, accepted among naturalistically inclined philosophers, and essentially for reasons similar to Emery’s. Then, reasons are provided for resisting Emery’s specific inference from scientific realism to realism about metaphysics. The resulting picture is a more nuanced view of the relationship between science and metaphysics within the naturalistic setting than the one which is currently most popular.
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| Additional Information: | Accepted manuscript, forthcoming in Synthese. | |||||||||
| Keywords: | Meta-metaphysics; metaphysics and science; naturalistic metaphysics; realism and antirealism. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Raoni Arroyo | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2025 13:03 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2025 13:03 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 25287 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | May 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25287 |
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