Occams Hatchet and Is Materialism "Special"

[Whateverist]

I subscribe to methodological naturalism (or materialism I suppose). I find no need to assume the testable world is all there is. But for all practical purposes, anything untestable can be ignored. You don't have any choice, in fact.

Well that pretty much rules out the arts and humanities.

I don't see why you'd assume that a methodological naturalist must be uninformed by literature, history or philosophy.  I believe he would only employ that method when pursuing answers to empirical questions.  Anything at all might might influence the empirical questions which become of interest.  Where allegorical meaning is concerned the method would simply not apply.