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This article introduces the subject of naturalism by sketching a brief history of pro-scientific attitudes and approaches in philosophy, distinguishing four distinctive kinds of naturalism, and clarifying their relation to nearby views such as physicalism, empiricism, and scientism.
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Philosophers mean many different things by the word "naturalism". It's important to keep those uses distinct, since ambiguity can obscure important distinctions and create cross-purposes and confusion.
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This page is a summary of: NATURALISMS, Think, January 2020, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1477175620000196.
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