Canberra Plan

For the urban plan of the city of Canberra, Australia, see Canberra § Urban structure.

In philosophy, the Canberra Plan is a contemporary program of methodology and analysis which answers questions about what the world is like according to physics.[1] It is considered a naturalistic approach in metaphysics, which holds that metaphysics can explain the features of the world described by physics and what the different classes of everyday belief represent.[1] A more detailed description of the plan refers to it as a family of doctrines which are grounded in a physicalist worldview as well as a priori philosophizing to explain our thoughts about our world as revealed by physics.[2]

The Canberra Plan arose in the 1990s at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Its originators were David Lewis and Frank Jackson. An important question which it raises concerns what to say once "It turns out that there is nothing of which the a priori theory is true."[2]

There are those who say that the Canberra Plan could prove insufficient and inconsistent to effectively pick out a feature of or relationship in the world.[3]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Haug, Matthew C. (2013) (in en). Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 86. ISBN 9780415531313.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Braddon-Mitchell, David; Nola, Robert (2009). Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 13–14. ISBN 9780262012560.
3. ↑ Glennan, Stuart (2017). The New Mechanical Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 146. ISBN 9780198779711.

## Bibliography

* Braddon-Mitchell, David; Nola, Robert (2008). "Introducing the Canberra Plan". Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262012560.001.0001. ISBN 9780262255202.
* Papineau, David, "2.2 The Canberra Plan", in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Naturalism

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