2025/12/30 by Nina Emery · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Arts and Humanities · #Science and Climate Studies #Philosophy and History of Science #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
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openalex publication_date 2025/12/30 · openalex created_date 2026/02/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Metaphysics of science is a subfield of philosophy that seeks to answer metaphysical questions—questions about what the world is like—in a way that is informed by our best science. But informed how, exactly? In what follows I will spell out two important ways in which we might make the relationship between metaphysics and science more precise. More specifically I will spell out two different types of naturalism to which a metaphysician might subscribe. I will then argue that these two different types of naturalism are importantly related, and that once this relationship is appreciated, it has implications not just for how we tackle particular metaphysical debates but also for how we think about the scope of metaphysics of science in general.