A Distinction between Science and Philosophy
Essays in Philosophy (forthcoming)
| Abstract | Ever since Kant published his Critique of Pure Reason, most philosophers have taken the distinction between science and philosophy to depend upon the existence of a class of truths specially amenable to philosophical investigation. In recent times, Quine's arguments against the analytic- synthetic distinction have cast doubt over the existence of such a class of special philosophical truths and consequently many now doubt that there is a sharp distinction between science and philosophy. In this paper, I present a perfectly sharp distinction between science and philosophy which does not depend upon any distinction between philosophical and scientifi c truths. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Metaphilosophy Semantic Holism Quine | |||||||||
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