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    Post-Quinean naturalism has structurally displaced aprior... — Carmelics
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    Post-Quinean naturalism has structurally displaced aprioristic grand system-building as a legitimate methodology in analytic philosophy.

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    • 1.Quine's critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction undermined the epistemological foundation for a priori system-building in philosophy.
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    • 2.Empirically-informed philosophy of mind and language has produced more tractable problems than pre-Quinean aprioristic metaphysics.
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    • 3.The professionalization of analytic philosophy now rewards piecemeal, empirically-constrained work over ambitious unified theoretical systems.
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    • 1.Contemporary metaphysicians like David Lewis construct elaborate a priori systems rivaling pre-Quinean grand theory, contradicting the claim.
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    • 2.Naturalism itself functions as an aprioristic commitment that cannot be empirically validated, so it hasn't eliminated a priori methodology.
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    • 3.The claim conflates institutional shifts in analytic philosophy with actual displacement of a priori reasoning from legitimate methodological options.
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