1990/03/01 by Larry Laudan · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Philosophy and History of Science #Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics #Philosophy, Science, and History
paper · doi:10.1086/289530
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.