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What kind of naturalism?

by Michele Marsonet (University of Genoa, Italy). The terms “holism” and “holistic”, which have become so fashionable today, correspond to the words “systematicity” and “systemic”. Speaking of holism the mind goes to Quine’s approach contained in some famous statements of “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, where he claimed that: The totality of our so-called knowledge…

by La barba di Diogene 16 December 202516 December 2025

Post-Empiricism and Epistemology

by Michele Marsonet (University of Genoa) It is well known that, in the last few decades, the logical positivist supremacy within philosophy of science has been replaced by that of the so-called “post-empiricist” thought. My intention is not to outline an historical account of this important change of outlook, because this has been done already…

by La barba di Diogene 14 December 202514 December 2025

Realism under Fire

by Michele Marsonet (University of Genoa, Italy) There are many problems involved in the realism/anti-realism debate, and I would like to stress that the central topic is ‘realism’ as such, which explains why issues connected to both metaphysical and scientific realism play an important role. This, of course, assuming that scientific realism can be clearly…

by La barba di Diogene 28 November 202528 November 2025