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The general philosophical framework of this book is philosophical naturalism. However, naturalism can be characterized in different ways that are not compatible with each other. It is argued that John Dewey’s soft naturalism, which maintains that culture is a product of nature, is to be preferred to hard naturalism, which appeals to natural science.
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Määttänen, P. (2015). Philosophical Naturalism. In: Mind in Action. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17623-9_1
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