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In philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, cognitive closure is the proposition that human minds are constitutionally incapable of solving certain perennial philosophical problems. Owen Flanagan calls this position anti-constructive naturalism or the "new mysterianism" and the primary advocate of the hypothesis, Colin McGinn, calls it transcendental naturalism acknowledging the possibility that solutions may be knowable to an intelligent non-human of some kind. According to McGinn, such philosophical questions include the mind-body problem, identity of the self, foundations of meaning, free will, and knowledge, both a priori and empirical.
philosophy of science
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- McGinn, Colin (1993), Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry, p. 31, "There is, I believe, a systematic pattern to philosophical disputation, in which the same kinds of unsatisfying alternatives recur" .
- McGinn, Colin (1994). "The Problem of Philosophy". Philosophical Studies 76 (2–3): 133–56. doi:10.1007/bf00989821. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/courses/consciousness97/papers/ProblemOfPhilosophy.html. "It combines deep epistemic transcendence with the denial that what thus transcends is thereby non-natural.".
- Butos, W.N. (2010). The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order. Advances in Austrian Economics. Emerald. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-1-84950975-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=Uo4pjUvVmHEC&pg=PA127. "1. Explanation is delimited by the apparatus of classification (the mind)... 2. An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself... 3. Therefore, the mind cannot fully explain itself..."
- Tyndall, John (1871), Fragments of Science, pp. 86–87, ISBN 9781402171277, https://books.google.com/books?id=hipQtHDerYQC&q=86 .
- Chomsky, Noam (1988), Language and problems of knowledge, p. 152 .
- Flanagan, Owen (1991). The Science of the Mind. MIT Press. p. 313. ISBN 978-0-262-56056-6. https://archive.org/details/sciencemind00flan.
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