Falibilismo e revisão pública

O que é: O naturalismo normalmente assume que qualquer hipótese ou teoria humana pode ser revista.

Como a posição entende: O conhecimento avança por crítica, teste, comparação de evidências e disposição para corrigir erros.

Base e contexto: O falibilismo conecta naturalismo à prática científica e a certas correntes pragmatistas.

Debates e variações: Há debate sobre se essa postura deve ser absoluta ou compatível com compromissos estáveis em outras áreas.

Supportive

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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A defense of skepticism, evidence, and public inquiry.

Reference: Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World.
Content: Sagan values the critical examination of extraordinary claims and the public discipline of evidence.
Use in debate: It is widely used for fallibilism and the rejection of explanatory supernatural appeals.

W. V. O. Quine, Epistemology Naturalized

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A central text of naturalized epistemology.

Reference: W. V. O. Quine, essay Epistemology Naturalized.
Content: Quine proposes treating human knowledge as part of the natural world and investigating it with empirical support.
Use in debate: It is a decisive source for naturalized epistemology.

Neutral

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

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An analysis of secular modernity and the naturalistic social imaginary.

Reference: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age.
Content: Taylor examines how modernity made an immanent and often naturalistic view of the world plausible.
Use in debate: It is useful as a neutral interpretive source on the cultural place of naturalism.