Can normative naturalism avoid a priori or intuitive premises?

Abstract

The normative naturalism proposed by Larry Laudan cannot avoid some unjustified a priori or intuitive premises, a situation that contradicts his explicit purpose of proposing a metamethodology without these kinds of assumptions. The naturalized scientific methodology only wants to be as empirical as science itself and it does not want to be so neither more nor less. Thus, and if empirical science needs a priori or intuitive premises, then a naturalized methodology of science can also have them. Yet, then, the distinction between a naturalized scientific methodology and a traditional one, is at the most a question of nuance, given that both have a priori premises.