文档介绍：A Naturalist Program: Epistemology and Ontology
D. M. Armstrong
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 73, No. 2. (Nov.,
1999), pp. 77-89.
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THE ELEVENTHANNUAL ROMANELL LECTURE
ON PHILOSOPHICALNATURALISM
A NATURALISTPROGRAM:
EPISTEMOLOGYAND ONTOLOGY
D. M. Armstrong, University of Sydney
Naturalism, I suppose, is generally thought of by philosophers as an
epistemic program. It is the idea that the most reliable of our beliefs
are got by experience, by observation and, if our naturalism is scien-
tifically based, especially by those particularly sophisticated forms of
observation that are called experiments.
My interest has always been in ontology, in what there is, rather
than in epistemology. I first became fully aware of this bias when, quite
a time ago, I worked on an epistemological boo