Do Things “Hang Together”? Naturalism, Pluralism, and the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395247 |
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| Authors | Peter Fristedt (0009-0008-4513-5730, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 613-636 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12483 |
| OpenAlex | W4306411887 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Philosophical naturalism in the spirit of Wilfred Sellars has historically sought to present a unified picture of the world, in which values, meanings, and minds find a place in the natural universe. But a number of recent thinkers have questioned the very idea of “the world” as a unified whole, arguing instead for disunity in the various discourses human beings use to talk about things. In this article I consider three such pluralist views. First, I take up the work of Huw Price, who combines pluralism and naturalism; then, I look at Markus Gabriel and Raymond Geuss, whose rejection of the ideas of “world” and “worldview” is not tied to naturalist presuppositions. In response to these views, I defend weaker conceptions of “the world” and “worldview,” utilizing Hans‐Georg Gadamer's idea of the “medium of language” and making the case for the unifying effects of language across the plurality of discourses
Epistemology · Natural (archaeology) · Naturalism · Pluralism (philosophy) · Presupposition · Sociology · History · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History
| Highly cited | No |
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