To: betty boop
But how can we talk about science without acknowledging its fundamental philosophical presuppositions? Such as materialism, naturalism, determinism, positivism? The scientific method methodological naturalism is based in these doctrines.Why is methodological naturalism explicitly differentiated from philosophical naturalism?
450 posted on
09/30/2009 12:35:47 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic; Alamo-Girl
Why is methodological naturalism explicitly differentiated from philosophical naturalism? Evidently they are differentiated to show that one methodological naturalism has become the term of art for the currently reigning "scientific method." The emphasis is on "method," or manner of proceeding in the investigation of nature. The latter philosophical naturalism is the doctrine that justifies the method that doctrine being that all natural objects can have only natural causes. In any case, the former is derivative from the latter.
455 posted on
09/30/2009 3:11:02 PM PDT by
betty boop
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