Naturalizing Mathematics and Naturalizing Ethics

Fabrice Pataut (1)

1 IHPST - Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

I offer several reasons for rejecting naturalism as a philosophical viewpoint or program envisaged for two paradigm cases: the case of mathematics and the case of ethics. Semantical, epistemological and metaphysical similarities between the two are investigated and assessed. I then offer a sketch of a different way of understanding the nature of mathematical difficulties and that of ethical puzzles.

Mots clés: Philosophy of mathematics; ethics; evolutionary ethics; ontology; metaphysics; naturalism; natural facts; causal inertia; values; abstract objects; mathematical knowledge; truth; pleonastic theory of truth

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Fabrice Pataut. Naturalizing Mathematics and Naturalizing Ethics. Petrov, Vesselin. Ontological Landscapes- Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy, Ontos Verlag, pp.183-210, 2011. ⟨halshs-00792222⟩