Organon F
Volume 32, May 2025, Issue 2, Pages 224–259
ISSN 2585-7150 (online)
Research Article
On Two Underappreciated Motifs of Quine’s Naturalism; Or, Quine on Reality and Naturalistic Philosophy
Michal Hubálek
This essay deals with two often underappreciated Quinean naturalistic motifs. The first motif concerns the metaphysical status of reality under naturalism, by examining what can be viewed as Quine’s attempt to dissolve realism and idealism into each other; the second motif concerns the metaphilosophical dimension of naturalized epistemology. I aim to demonstrate that Quine’s way of approaching these two motifs turns out to be not only complementary, but also highly indicative of his overall naturalistic outlooks as well as professional preferences. As a result, this essay re-assesses Quine’s influence on the development of naturalism and naturalistically conceived philosophy from the second half of the 20th century onwards.
Quine; realism; naturalism; naturalized epistemology; naturalistic philosophy.
Author
Michal Hubálek
Affiliation
University of Hradec Králové
Address
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62/26, 500 03 Hradec Králové 3, Czech Republic
Received
14 August 2024
Revised
21 February 2025
Accepted
5 March 2025
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Hubálek, M. (2025). On Two Underappreciated Motifs of Quine’s Naturalism; Or, Quine on Reality and Naturalistic Philosophy. Organon F, 32(2), 224–259. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32205
Chicago
Hubálek, Michal. 2025. "On Two Underappreciated Motifs of Quine’s Naturalism; Or, Quine on Reality and Naturalistic Philosophy." Organon F 32 (2): 224–259. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32205
Harvard
Hubálek, M. (2025). On Two Underappreciated Motifs of Quine’s Naturalism; Or, Quine on Reality and Naturalistic Philosophy. Organon F, 32(2), pp. 224–259. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32205
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