Scientific metaphysics /
Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural science. They engage with a range of approaches and disciplines to argue that if metaphysics is to be capable of identifying objective truths, i...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Contributing Authors; 1. Introduction: pursuing a naturalist metaphysics
- 2. On the prospects of naturalized metaphysics
- 3. Scientific ontology and speculative ontology
- 4. Can metaphysics be naturalized? And if so, how?
- 5. Kinds of things ... towards a bestiary of the manifest image
- 6. The world in the data
- 7. What can contemporary philosophy learn from our 'scientific philosophy' heritage?
- 8. Neo-Kantianism, scientific realism, and modern physics
- 9. Some remarks on 'naturalism' as we now have it
- 10. Causation, free will, and naturalism; Index.