Naturalism

• Ontological:

  • Our experience is the result of a unified reality so no specific substances (such as the mental, representations, language, etc.) or ad hoc explanations should be admitted to explain it.

• Methodological:

  • Philosophy should go hand by hand with scientific research grounding our understanding of the world on the empirical operations we can inpinge upon it.

• Note:

  • Naturalism should not be judged in itself as a thesis but as a pragmatic proposal evaluated in terms of its achievements...
    • Ultimatelly naturalism should account for itself through naturalist epistemology, i.e. through the scientific understanding of knowledge itself.