id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jflnto6d3ndfvfeksb5lvwermy Olin M. Robus Does Science License Metaphysics? 2015 20 .pdf application/pdf 4987 292 49 answer the question: "Does Science License Metaphysics?" The naturalized the success of Chakravartty's account of justifying naturalized metaphysics. take seriously the problems facing any attempt to locate the source of metaphysical authority in the empirical or a posteriori content of science. scientists working in periods of normal science already accept a priori metaphysical assumptions as part of the paradigm to which they belong. We should see immediately that the presence of a priori principles in science appears to undermine completely the naturalization of metaphysics as priori principles are present in science, there is still a clear sense in which empirical considerations play a role in scientific experimentation and theorizing Ultimately, Chakravartty sees that the purely empirical content of science, If all metaphysical theories have a 'connection' to the empirical content of recourse to the 'empirical content' of science didn't escape the presence of antecedent metaphysical commitments. ./cache/work_jflnto6d3ndfvfeksb5lvwermy.pdf ./txt/work_jflnto6d3ndfvfeksb5lvwermy.txt