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Naturalized metaphysics or displacing metaphysicians to save metaphysicsSynthese 201 (6): 1-25. 2023.Naturalized metaphysics aims to establish justified metaphysical claims, where metaphysics is meant to carry its usual significance, while avoiding the traditional methods of metaphysics—a priori reasoning, conceptual analysis, intuitions, and common sense—which naturalized metaphysics argues are not epistemically probative. After offering an explication of what it means to do metaphysics, this paper argues that naturalized metaphysics, at the outset, is hospitable to doing metaphysics. The unde…Read more
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Non-supernaturalism: Linguistic Convention, Metaphysical Claim, or Empirical Matter of Fact?Philosophia 49 (1): 299-314. 2020.This paper examines our pre-theoretic conception of non-supernaturalism; the thesis that all that exists is natural. It is argued that we intuitively take this thesis to be a substantive, non-dogmatic, empirically justified, not merely contingent truth. However, devicing an interpretation of non-supernaturalism that captures all aspects of this intuition is difficult. Indeed, it is found that this intuition conflates the strong inferential scope of a metaphysical claim with the modest justificat…Read more
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
PhD, 2022
Copenhagen, Denmark
Areas of Specialization
Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Rudolf Carnap |
Social Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
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Metaphilosophy |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Rudolf Carnap |
Social Epistemology |