Introduction

Naturalism' is arguably the dominant trend currently in both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Owing to the influence of the works of W. V. O. Quine, Wilfred Sellars, and Hillary Putnam among others, naturalism both as a methodological and ontological position has become one of the mainstays of contemporary analytic approaches to knowledge, mind and ethics. In 'Naturalism, Experience, and Hume's "Science of Human Nature"', Benedict Smith critically considers the standard interpretation of Hume's naturalism as paving the way for a scientistic and 'disenchanted' conception of the world. Smith shows that this is a restrictive reading of Hume and that it obscures a more profitable interpretation of Humean naturalism. In 'Exile and Return: From Phenomenology to Naturalism (and Back Again)', David Cerbone considers the opposition between phenomenology and naturalism as an opposition between two philosophical approaches with regards to conceptual schemes.