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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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Are You a Naturalist Naturalist?

I'm what kind of absolutist naturalist I suppose. The alternatives is to pose that somehow you can understand reality by thinking about supernatural beings like gods or by looking for supernatural entities which are not. So I think that the just thinking things out approach that's been dominant in analytic philosophy and in mathematics is not a good approach to philosophy. Instead we should tie in very closely with what we learned through empirical approaches like science. All of these fields the key fields of philosophy can be done in naturalistic form. Of course naturalism has always been part of philosophy go back to phales and phales probably was the first philosophy at least in the western tradition.

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