Work in Progress Seminar of CFCUL’s PhD Students

Blanca Luque
“An approximation to naturalized epistemology”

In the middle of the twentieth century naturalism was born as a new philosophical approach. In general, naturalism addresses one of the problems of the philosophical community since Modernity: the relationship between philosophy and science. From an epistemological view, naturalism rejects the traditional search for absolute and timeless criteria for the study of knowledge, and aims at a closer collaboration with philosophy and sciences. However, the multiplicity of perspectives that are considered naturalistic are often contradictory and makes difficult their characterization. In this talk, I explore possible criteria for naturalism from a pluralistic approach, such as the abandonment of rational reconstructions in the study of knowledge and the relevance of biological, historical and sociological consideration