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Method in Metaphysics.
Andrew Beards shows how Lonergan's philosophy can help to clarify not only particular issues in current debates but also the larger question of a basic method.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Lonergan studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Revival of Metaphysics
- Lonergan and Analytical Philosophy
- The Concern with Method
- The Roots of Metaphysics in Epistemology
- 2 From Epistemology to Metaphysics
- Understanding Method
- Critical Realism I: Cognitional Structure
- Characteristics of the Cognitional Process
- Critical Realist Epistemology
- Critical Realism II: Comparison and Contrast
- Critical Realism a Foundation for Metaphysics
- 3 The Question of Method
- Reality as Anticipated in Knowing
- Appropriating the Aristotelian Tradition
- Establishing Ontological Commitments
- Whitehead and Process Metaphysics
- Method and Ockham's Razor
- Ontology as 'Truth Making'
- Metaphysics, Language, and Logic
- The A Priori in Knowing
- Myth and Metaphysics
- Phenomenology
- An Outline of Metaphysics
- 4 Metaphysics of the Self
- Lonergan and Descartes
- First-Person Language: G.E.M. Anscombe
- Confusions over Self-Knowledge
- First-Person Ontology: E.J. Lowe
- First-Person Ontology: Sydney Shoemaker
- The Divided Self: J.R. Lucas
- 5 On Knowing and Naming
- Kripke and Putnam versus the Frege-Russell Thesis
- Searle's Critique
- Empiricist Presuppositions
- Lonergan on Reference and Demonstratives
- Assessment of Kripke and Putnam
- Problems in Searle
- Conclusion
- 6 Natural Kinds: From Description to Explanation
- Our Knowledge of What There Is in Nature: The Essentialist/Anti-essentialist Debate
- Beyond Primary and Secondary Qualities
- Explanation: The Formal Cause as a Set of Internal Terms and Relations
- The Natural-Kinds Debate: A Critical Realist Assessment
- 7 Universals, Tropes, Substance, and Events
- Universals
- Tropes
- Lewis on Properties
- Possible-Worlds Semantics
- A Critique of Lewis
- Possibility as Intelligibility
- Substance.
- A Critical Realist Approach to Substance
- How to Understand Universals
- Substance: Unity-Identity-Whole versus 'Body'
- Further Elucidations: Loux's Questions on Substance
- Strawson and Whitehead on Substance
- Events and Occurrences
- 8 Causality
- Counterfactual Theory
- A Broader Perspective on Causality
- Problems from Hume
- Causation Present in Consciousness
- The Statistical Turn
- 9 Dispositions, Development, and Supervenience
- Lonergan on Potency, Emergence, and Development
- Directedness and Supervenience: Martin on Dispositions
- Kim on Supervenience
- 10 Metaphysics of the Social
- Issues of Method: Terms and Relations
- The Ontology of Social Relations
- Value as Final Cause
- Persons as Interdependent
- Intersubjective Communication as Causal
- The Ontology of Language
- Mutual Self-Mediation
- The Quasi-Operator
- The Ontology of History
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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