Why subject naturalists need pragmatic genealogy.
Huw Price's subject naturalism has emerged as a leading pragmatist position within recent debates surrounding philosophical naturalism. Unlike orthodox views which tend to be guided by metaphysical questions about the "place" of, for instance, the mind, meaning, and morality within the natural world...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 1/2; pp. 4313 - 4336 |
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