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Feb 5, 2019 · So that it may be a worthwhile enterprise, it must have claim to discovery of a distinctive set of objective tr... Are the Questions of Metaphysics More Fundamental Than Those of Science? - Ney - 2020 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research - Wiley Online Library
- Alyssa Ney
- 2020
Nov 5, 2018 · In this paper I outline a conception of the relation of metaphysics to science, motivated by van Fraassen’s work on philosophical stances, that does justice to the role played by metaphysical assumptions and presuppositions in scientific inquiry, while honouring the anti-metaphysical attitude that has always characterised the empiricist tradition.
- Sandy C. Boucher
- aboucher@une.edu.au
- 2019
Most if not all pursuits that would be called philosophical fall under one or another of the four branches: ethics, esthetics, method-ology (including epistemology and logic), and metaphysics. And in each of these fields there is a key problem around which philosophical studies in that field cluster. In saying this I realize
Sep 13, 2023 · If we fast-forward two hundred and fifty years to the present day, metaphysics is a thriving enterprise. Many analytic philosophers now work on topics that would have been familiar to Kant and his predecessors in the rationalist tradition: is there one concrete object that grounds the existence of all other concrete objects?
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May 24, 2018 · The alternative promoted by Ladyman and Ross consists in replacing traditional metaphysics by what they call “scientific metaphysics”: it takes metaphysics to be a purely a posteriori enterprise, its concepts and theses being exclusively derived from and evaluated in light of contemporary science.
