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Mysteries and Scandals. Transcendental Naturalism and the Future of Philosophy

Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper I shall discuss McGinn's transcendental naturalism (TN) and the reasons he gives in order to show that philosophy will always be just a cluster of mysteries without answers. I shall show that the three main arguments he gives for TN are inconclusive and that a modular architecture of the mind he presupposes is not committed to the epistemic thesis of TN, the idea that we are "cognitively closed" to answering some questions about consciousness, meaning, knowledge and the like.
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1539655876
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