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Reflections on the Manifest and Scientific Images
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Kern, Matthew
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Year and Degree
2021, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
Abstract
I develop an interpretation of Wilfrid Sellars' distinction between the manifest image and scientific image and apply this interpretation to several philosophical issues, including the history of philosophy, ontology, the fact/value distinction, metanormativity, folk psychology, and types of naturalism. The dialectic centers around how normativity can be understood within a naturalistic worldview. My ultimate conclusion is that the most plausible form of naturalism will be one which in fact leaves room for normativity--metaphysically, epistemically, and semantically/pragmatically. I identify the great mistake of prior philosophical understandings of the manifest image as the mistake of taking it as an ontology, or as a theory of what exists. Finally, I come to support Huw Price's subject naturalism.
Committee
David Pereplyotchik, Ph.D (Advisor)
Deborah Smith, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Dunlosky, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Susan Roxburgh, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
85 p.
Subject Headings
Philosophy
Keywords
manifest image
;
scientific image
;
naturalism
;
subject naturalism
;
history of philosophy
;
ontology
;
fact-value distinction
;
metanormativity
;
folk psychology
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Kern, M. (2021).
Reflections on the Manifest and Scientific Images
[Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1620235630790957
APA Style (7th edition)
Kern, Matthew.
Reflections on the Manifest and Scientific Images.
2021. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1620235630790957.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kern, Matthew. "Reflections on the Manifest and Scientific Images." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1620235630790957
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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