Unorthodox Humeanism / Georg Sparber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparber, Georg.

Series:

Logos (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 14.

Logos : Studien zur Logik, Sprachphilosophie und Metaphysik ; Bd. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

The nature of fundamental properties

Chapter 1: Orthodox Humeanism on laws of nature and causation

Chapter 2: Orthodox dispositionalism on laws of nature and causation

Chapter 3: Humeanism vs. dispositionalism

Chapter 4: Unorthodox Humeanism

Humean metaphysics of causation as informed of contemporary science

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-86838-033-7

3-11-032398-2

OCLC:

851970821