Abstract

PEREZ JIMENEZ, Miguel Ángel. BACKSTAGE ONTOLOGY. A CRITICISM OF GENETIC NATURALISM. Univ. philos. [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.66, pp.61-76. ISSN 0120-5323.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.uph33-66.obpm.

This paper criticizes genetic naturalism, namely, the task of explaining how reason emerges from nature. We take into account Donald Davidson's anomalous monism and his analogy of triangulation. Our aim is to criticize both the metaphysical suppositions of anomalous monism and its consequences for genetic naturalism. We propose that those suppositions and those consequences prevent the genetic question to be appropriately raised and, therefore, mislead the research for a reasonable answer to that.

Keywords : anomalous monism; triangulation; naturalism; Donald Davidson.

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