Sunday 13 November 2016

Broad on Ward on Naturalism

From p.37 of "The Local Historical Background of Contemporary Cambridge Philosophy", in C. A. Mace (ed.) (1957) British Philosophy in the Mid-Century (London: G. Allen and Unwin) pp. 13-61, describing James Ward's naturalism:
"Ward takes naturalism to be the attempts at philosophic synthesis made by persons who regard the methods of natural science as the only available ways of getting knowledge about matters of fact, and who treat the concepts used by scientists and the laws discovered by them as exact and literal transcriptions of purely objective facts."