Pseudo-neutrality of EOE and the ideological presuppositions of naturalism and materialism

This paper analyses an epistemic repertoire I label EOE (Epistemic Empirical Objectivism), a recurrent set of assumptions and practices that functions as a putatively neutral methodological frame in scientific discourse. I provide a formal — performative — argument showing that EOE is internally inconsistent because its claims of observer neutrality, language transparency and the independence of empirical data contradict minimal epistemic facts about the role of the subject. I then show how EOE pragmatically reproduces epistemic materialism and privileges interpretive stances such as hard determinism; finally, I outline a minimal alternative (Minimal Epistemology, ME) and indicate consequences for debates on emergence, agency and scientific objectivity.