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Cooperative naturalism

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The radical forms of naturalistic epistemology look more like revolutionary manifestos than a reasonable alternatives. A modest form of naturalism is worth promoting. This modest form can cooperate with hermeneutics to solve epistemic problems, and therefore wins the title of cooperative naturalism, and benefits from the hermeneutic account of experience. Cooperative naturalism somewhat bridges the gap between analytic and continental philosophy.

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自然主义认识论的激进形式似乎更像革命宣言, 而非合理的方案。 值得提倡的是一种温和的自然主义。 它能与解释学协作地解决认识论问题, 故而称为协作的自然主义。 协作的自然主义接受了解释学对经验概念的挹注, 弥合了分析哲学和大陆哲学之间的裂痕。

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Correspondence to Wang Huaping.

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Translated by Wang Huaping from Ziran Bianzhengfa Tongxun 自然辩证法通讯 (Journal of Dialectics of Nature), 2006, (4): 31–36

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Huaping, W., Xiaoming, S. Cooperative naturalism. Front. Philos. China 2, 601–613 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-007-0039-6

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