Historicity, Critique, and the Problem of Naturalism in Neuropragmatism

Autor:	Conor Morris
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Philosophy Pragmatism Meliorism media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) Historicity Historicism Mistake Conflation Naturalism media_common Epistemology
Zdroj:	Contemporary Pragmatism. 14:35-50
ISSN:	1875-8185 1572-3429
DOI:	10.1163/18758185-01401003
Popis:	I argue that neuropragmatism holds to a problematic version of Dewey’s principle of continuity, and thus risks the melioristic dimensions of the neurophilosophical turn proposed for pragmatism. Therefore, firstly, I try to show that the neuropragmatist does hold this principle. Secondly, I give an alternative (historicist) account. Thirdly, I argue that the neuropragmatists’ interpretation of the principle of continuity is problematic because it threatens to undermine their melioristic concerns because of their explanatory commitments. This historicist pragmatist order of explanation aims at avoiding this problem while maintaining meliorism. I conclude by arguing that this is a mistake in the conflation of two distinct stories, one ethical, and the other ontological.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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