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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ross, Don, 1962- (Editor ), Ladyman, James, 1969- (Editor ), Kincaid, Harold, 1952- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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.