Comment on Lawrence Cahoone, “Naturalism and the Cartesian ghost”

Abstract

This paper comments on Lawrence Cahoone's essay “Naturalism and the Cartesian ghost,” published in this issue of Metaphilosophy. Agreeing with Cahoone's criticism of reductive naturalism while identifying differences in our versions of non-reductive naturalism, the paper focuses on questions concerning ontological dependence and the relation between naturalism and humanism.