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Unorthodox Humeanism /
The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical argume...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt :
Ontos Verlag,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Logos (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
Bd. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical arguments to show that orthodox Humeanism is in trouble. The unorthodox metaphysical turn consists in taking the fundamental properties to be relations rather than intrinsic properties. The book spells out in detail what an unorthodox version of Humeanism amounts to and shows that in turning unorthodox Humeani. |
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| Notas: | Rev. thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Lausanne, 2008. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110323986 3110323982 9783110323740 3110323745 |