Naturalism And Empiricism A Parting of the Ways

Naturalism And Empiricism A Parting of the Ways
Bas Van Fraassen

Friday, May 7: 3-4 PM
Kremen Ed. Bldg. room 170

Philosophical naturalism, from the 1944 School of Naturalism of Columbia University to Willard Van Ormen Quine and Penelope Maddy, proclaims itself in effect as a stance, in just the way that, in my view, empiricism must be a stance rather than a thesis or dogma. But the stances are not the same. My focus here will be entirely on the contrast between naturalism and empiricism in epistemology and philosophy of science (with metaphysics left aside).

Bas Van Fraassen has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He retired from Princeton University and currently teaches at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perception (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Andrew Fiala, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
California State University, Fresno
2380 East Keats Ave. MB 105
Fresno, CA 93740
559-278-2124
afiala@csufresno.edu

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