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Prolegomenon to Any Future Critical Responses to Naturalism

Giladi, Paul

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In this paper, I propose a programme for future critical responses to naturalism. The paper is divided into two principal parts. In Part I, after providing a topography of contemporary critical approaches to the Placement Problem, which is the operational logic of naturalism, I provide an overview of a burgeoning critical response to naturalism, which, to date, may be predominantly individuated by hostility towards the Placement Problem in two interconnected manners: an epistemic concern and a political concern. Part II of the paper focuses on four areas of future research on critical responses to naturalism arising from themes identified in Part I: the first is a challenge set by Antonio Nunziante concerning the historical and political aspects of American humanism and naturalism; the second involves centring and combining decolonial and queer theoretic discursive formations to enhance critical theoretic responses to naturalism; the third emphasises the need to put Hegel and Otto Neurath in direct conversation about anti-foundationalism, pragmatism, and the (dis)unity of science, in part to dismantle the long-standing hostility between Hegelians and logical empiricists; the fourth is on the subject of developing a critique of sexology’s scientific naturalist framework for making sense of sexual arousal.

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Giladi, P. (2021). Prolegomenon to Any Future Critical Responses to Naturalism. Filosofický časopis, 2021(3), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2021.3s75

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 1, 2021
Publication Date Dec 1, 2021
Deposit Date Sep 8, 2023
Publicly Available Date Sep 8, 2023
Journal Filosoficky Casopis
Print ISSN 0015-1831
Electronic ISSN 2570-9232
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2021
Issue 3
Pages 75-94
DOI https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2021.3s75
Keywords scientific naturalism, critical social theory, alienation, power, Placement Problem
Publisher URL https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/en/special-issues/73-michal-chabada-robert-maco-eds-varieties-of-naturalism-in-contemporary-philosophy
Additional Information Additional Information : Special Issue of The Philosophical Journal

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