Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine

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Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine. / Jaksland, Rasmus.

In: Metaphilosophy, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2024, p. 214-230.

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Jaksland, R 2024, 'Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine', Metaphilosophy, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 214-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12677

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Jaksland, R. (2024). Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine. Metaphilosophy, 55(2), 214-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12677

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Jaksland R. Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine. Metaphilosophy. 2024;55(2):214-230. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12677

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Jaksland, Rasmus. / Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine. In: Metaphilosophy. 2024 ; Vol. 55, No. 2. pp. 214-230.

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title = "Naturalized metaphysics in the image of Roy Wood Sellars and not Willard Van Orman Quine",
abstract = "The naturalized metaphysics promoted by Ladyman and Ross, among others, is often described as (neo)-Quinean metaphysics. This association with Quine's naturalism can, however, give a misleading impression of the aims and commitments of this kind of naturalized metaphysics. Contrary to Quine, these naturalized metaphysicians endorse metaphysical realism and offer wholesale arguments in favor of the epistemic standing of science-based metaphysics. Accordingly, this naturalized metaphysics comes closer to Roy Wood Sellars's evolutionary naturalism, especially since the theory of evolution is central to the criticism that naturalized metaphysics levels at nonnaturalized metaphysics. The paper argues that Sellars's naturalism is furthermore helpful (1) for explicating the naturalism of naturalized metaphysics, (2) for theorizing a more general naturalist basis for naturalized metaphysics, and (3) for suggesting where naturalized metaphysics is perhaps not naturalist enough, especially when it comes to considering the implications of the theory of evolution for its positive program.",
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