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Scepticism and naturalism
Descartes' First Meditation presents a serious challenge to the theoretical enterprise of science by raising doubts about our belief that we know truths. The various strategies for refuting the challenge, represented by Descartes, Putnam and Austin, have proven unsuccessful, leaving theoretical …
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Mark Twain's Desperate Naturalism
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Nietzsche and Montaigne: cheerful naturalism
… free from romantic pessimism and embraced the naturalism that would guide his works from Human, All Too Human onward.
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Nominalism In Mathematics - Modality And Naturalism
… nominalism is incompatible with mathematical naturalism.</p> <p>Shapiro argues that modal nominalists invoke primitive modal concepts and that they are thereby unable to justify the various modal assertions that figure in their theories. The platonist, meanwhile, can appeal to the …
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Being Human: Fine-Tuning Moral Naturalism
… framework. I consider more carefully what moral naturalism requires. I distinguish between romantic and non-romantic approaches to the grounding of moral norms, and formal and material varieties of these approaches.<br/>I distinguish between romantic and non-romantic approaches to the grounding …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
… to remain distinct from other approaches of naturalism and social epistemology in philosophy of science and, more generally, Science and Technology Studies (STS). My goal is to employ the error statistical program in order to address a number of problems to approaches in philosophy of …
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… add anything substantive to theories of ethical naturalism? In this paper, I examine this question. I argue that theistic naturalism appears to incur certain objections as well as provide a plausible and explanatory constraint on content for theories of ethical naturalism. As a result, a …
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Kantianism and Its Commitment to Non Naturalism
… to the view that Kantianism is opposed to Non-Naturalism. This view, while understandable, is incorrect. In fact, the Kantian approach to ethics has a strong commitment to Non-Naturalism in its metaphysical construction. The purpose of this paper is to prove this dependence by showing the …
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Non-Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Normative Properties
… how the problem of supervenience against non-naturalism should be understood (Chapter 2). Then, I argue that there are issues with the most convincing attempts to explain the necessary connection between the normative and the non-normative (Chapter 3) and with the most convincing attempts to …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… scholarship on nineteenth-century American naturalism by arguing that the emergent theories of determinism and pragmatism were antithetical to, and yet dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight upon the naturalist genre (the …
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Meta-naturalism in selected Twentieth Century American novels
<p>A twentieth century literary naturalism does exist, but critics must confront the problem of an “impure” naturalism which does not lend itself to neat theories and formulas. The intent of this dissertation is to examine the permutations of literary naturalism in selected twentieth century …
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Literary naturalism 1865-1940: its history, influences and legacy
This thesis examines the emergence of literary Naturalism in France from its beginnings in the fiction and letters of the Goncourt brothers, the positivist philosophy of Auguste Cornte, and the literary criticism of Hippolyte Tame. It then tracks the history and reception of naturalistic fiction in …
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Stephen Pepper's Ethical Empiricism and Recent Critics of Naturalism
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
<p>This qualitative study aims to provide a sociological understanding of people who hold minority beliefs about spirituality and religion and to improve our sociological and social-psychological understanding of a-religious and alternatively religious people. Data were collected through indepth …
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Knowing Misha the Polar Bear: Multi-naturalism, biography, and conservation in Svalbard.
… of nature documentaries, I explore the multi-naturalism of this Svalbard bear through the work of those that know her. In each context, she is a different polar bear to different people, representing different roles, cares, concerns, and futures. Ultimately, I ask, what is a polar bear in …
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Spontaneous generation in the 1870s: Victorian scientific naturalism and its relationship to medicine.
… particularly with regard to Victorian scientific naturalism and its relationship to medicine. Spontaneous generation threatened some of the fundamental tenets of naturalism. Furthermore, Tyndall clearly related his opposition to spontaneous generation to his support for the germ theory which he …
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Restoring the Balance: Setting Aside Naturalism in Favor of Personhood in Extreme Cases
<p>This dissertation addresses a simple question: Is an anencephalic child a person? These children are born with only a brain stem, and, as such, cannot experience any type of consciousness. If personhood is understood as an articulable moral category, particularly distinct from DNA membership, …
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