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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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?|last=Haug|first=Matthew C.|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9780415531313|location=Oxon|pages=86|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism|last1=Braddon-Mitchell|first1=David|last2=Nola|first2=Robert|publisher=MIT Press|year=2009|isbn=9780262012560|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=13–14}}</ref>
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."<ref name=":1" />
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.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The New Mechanical Philosophy|last=Glennan|first=Stuart|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2017|isbn=9780198779711|location=Oxford|pages=146}}</ref>
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==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last1=Braddon-Mitchell |first1=David |last2=Nola |first2=Robert |author-link2=Robert Nola |chapter=Introducing the Canberra Plan |title=Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism |date=2008 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=9780262255202 |doi=10.7551/mitpress/9780262012560.001.0001}} *Papineau, David, "2.2 The Canberra Plan", in [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/#CanPla The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Naturalism]
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