Normative Naturalism
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 57 (1) , 44-59
- https://doi.org/10.1086/289530
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.Keywords
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