Naturalism and Science

The Xavier Zubiri Review 11:91-106 (2009)
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“Naturalism” has been used as a means to distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific.Methodological naturalism emphasizes the fact that only natural entities can be employedin scientific theories. Metaphysical naturalism goes beyond this and affirms that only thosethings that are naturalistic are real. In fact, naturalism is the product of two more fundamental notions: the canon of reality and the scientific method. Since neither of those canbe defined in an unambiguous and unchanging manner, naturalism also is fundamentallyblurry. There is therefore no hard-and-fast distinction between the category of naturalisticand that of non-naturalistic; they blend together in a complex manner, even if, in particularcases, with respect to particular entities, they are functionally quite distinct“Naturalismo” se ha usado como un medio para distinguir lo científico de lo no-científico.El naturalismo metodológico da énfasis al hecho de que sólo pueden emplearse entidadesnaturales en teorías científicas. El naturalismo metafísico va más allá de esto y afirma quesólo las cosas naturalistas son reales. De hecho, el naturalismo es el producto de dos nociones más fundamentales: el canon de la realidad y el método científico. Puesto que ninguno de aquéllos puede definirse de una manera inequívoca y inmutable, naturalismomismo también queda fundamentalmente borroso. Por consiguiente no hay ninguna distinción dura la categoría de naturalista y la categoría de no-naturalista; ellos mezclan juntos de una manera compleja, aun cuando, en casos particulares, con respecto a las entidades particulares, ellos sean funcionalmente bastante distintos

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