Abstract
Is there any prospect of bringing metaphysical theorizing into alignment with scientific inquiry? Recent philosophy has paid significant attention to the goal of doing metaphysics in a way that is substantially connected to, and thereby epistemically enhanced by, our best science. There are significant epistemological challenges, however, facing this project of naturalizing metaphysics.
Criteria for assessing the credentials of metaphysical presuppositions and inferences, such as their sensitivity to empirical evidence and their explanatory power, are often judged differently by different agents. This chapter provides a framework for thinking about these challenges in terms of different epistemic stances and explores ways in which stances shape our judgments of the warrant of metaphysical claims.