# Canberra Plan

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In [philosophy](/source/philosophy), the '''Canberra Plan''' is a contemporary program of [methodology](/source/philosophical_methodology) and [analysis](/source/philosophical_analysis) which answers questions about what the world is like according to [physics](/source/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](/source/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 [doctrine](/source/doctrine)s which are grounded in a [physicalist](/source/physicalist) worldview as well as ''[a priori](/source/A_priori_and_a_posteriori)'' 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](/source/Australian_National_University) in [Canberra](/source/Canberra), Australia. Its originators were [David Lewis](/source/David_Lewis_(philosopher)) and [Frank Jackson](/source/Frank_Cameron_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](/source/MIT_Press) |isbn=9780262255202 |doi=10.7551/mitpress/9780262012560.001.0001}}
*[Papineau, David](/source/David_Papineau), "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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