The new demarcation problem
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https://doi.org/10.20416/LSRSPS.V10I1.1Keywords:
The demarcation problem, Scientific realism, metaphysics, metametaphysics, inference to the best explanationAbstract
How to conceive the relation between the concept of science and that of metaphysics ? — a very influential answer today advocates the "methodological naturalization of science". According to this thesis, even if science and metaphysics are epistemically independent undertakings, they are or should be methodologically analogous: metaphysical inquiry would or should be conducted by scientific means. The purpose of my paper is to show that such a way of conceiving metaphysics has an opposite effect to the one expected. Instead of raising metaphysical certainty to a scientific level, it lowers scientific certainty to a metaphysical level. I argue that, if one does not resolve to accept this consequence or to renounce a certain form of naturalization, a new problem of demarcation between science and metaphysics emerges
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