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In [[philosophy]], the '''Canberra Plan''' is a contemporary program of [[philosophical methodology|methodology]] and [[philosophical analysis|analysis]] thatwhich 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 [[Doctrine|doctrinesdoctrine]]s thatwhich are grounded onin a [[physicalist]] worldview as well as ''[[A priori and a posteriori|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 (philosopher)|David Lewis]] and [[Frank Cameron Jackson|Frank Jackson]]. An important question thatwhich 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" />