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Year: 2010
Pages: 135-155
Series: Rivista di estetica
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, "Il Contributo di Frege all'attuale dibattito sul naturalismo", Rivista di estetica 44, 2010, pp. 135-155.
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Il Contributo di Frege all'attuale dibattito sul naturalismo
pp. 135-155
in: E naturale essere naturalisti?, Rivista di estetica 44, 2010.Abstract
In this paper I shall address two main questions, namely: (1) Is Frege’s criticism against psychologism still relevant to the present debate on naturalism vs. anti-naturalism? And (2) Does Frege’s suggested alternative to reductive naturalism amount to a variety of supernaturalism? After having provided an answer to the above mentioned questions (a positive and a negative one respectively), I shall consider three possible non-Platonist proposals as regards the metaphysics of what Frege called the “unactual-objective realm”: (i) irrealism, (ii) objectivity without objects and (iii) objectuality without substantiality. I shall claim that, even though they all succeed in avoiding both Platonism and supernaturalism, it is the third that best fits Frege’s insight concerning the root of the reductive naturalist’s mistake.
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Publication details
Year: 2010
Pages: 135-155
Series: Rivista di estetica
Full citation:
, "Il Contributo di Frege all'attuale dibattito sul naturalismo", Rivista di estetica 44, 2010, pp. 135-155.