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Normative Naturalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Larry Laudan
Larry Laudan*
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Department of Philosophy University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Abstract

Normative naturalism is a view about the status of epistemology and philosophy of science; it is a meta-epistemology. It maintains that epistemology can both discharge its traditional normative role and nonetheless claim a sensitivity to empirical evidence. The first sections of this essay set out the central tenets of normative naturalism, both in its epistemic and its axiological dimensions; later sections respond to criticisms of that species of naturalism from Gerald Doppelt, Jarrett Leplin and Alex Rosenberg.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , March 1990, pp. 44 - 59
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Copyright © 1990 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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