Methodological Naturalism, Analyzed.
I present and evaluate three interpretations of methodological naturalism (MN), the principle that scientific explanations may only appeal to natural phenomena: as an essential feature of science, as a provisional guideline grounded in the historical failure of supernatural hypotheses, and as a synt...
| Published in: | Erkenntnis Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 1981 - 2003 |
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