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Worldviews, science, and us : studies of analytical metaphysics : a selection of topics from a methodological perspective / editors, Robrecht Vanderbeeken, Bart D'Hooghe.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Metaphysics of Science Workshop (5th : 2005 : Ghent, Belgium)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Analysis (Philosophy)--Congresses.
- Analysis (Philosophy).
- Metaphysics--Congresses.
- Metaphysics.
- Philosophy and science--Congresses.
- Philosophy and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium. The aim of this volume is twofold. First, it fields a selection of ongoing discussions on a central topic in contemporary analytical metaphysics. Authors were asked to encapsulate their lecture topic into a pr�ecis, highlighting the contesting views, accentuating the pro and contra of the main arguments, and shedding light on the origin, the evolution and the eventual offspring of a respective discussion. Second, this volume addresses the methodological question by examining what can be learned if we compare these discussions from a methodological perspective. What are the red herrings and shortcomings? Is an integrated methodology possible? Does each discussion finally await a pluralism of plausible positions or will an overall convincing account be expected? And finally, can analytical metaphysics methodologically assert and investigate their basic assumptions, if not from a common sense stance?
- Contents:
- Worldviews, science and us : studies of analytical metaphysics. A selection of topics from a methodological perspective / Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D'Hooghe
- Introduction : contemporary analytic metaphysics, its crisis and challenge / Robrecht Vanderbeeken
- Holism and structural realism / Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam
- Common sense, relativity and theories of time / Phil Dowe
- Purely dispositional worlds / Sungho Choi
- Natural kinds - what are they? / Joanna Odrowa�z-Sypniewska
- Personal identity, conceptual analysis and no-fault disagreement / Caroline West
- A world of tropes? / Anna-Sofia Maurin
- Causal pluralism / Stathis Psillos
- Why social emergence? Discussing the use of analytical metaphysics in social theory / Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Counterfactuals, causation and humean supervenience / Paul Noordhof
- Disentangling causal pluralism / Leen de Vreese
- Mathematical entities / Lieven Decock.
- Notes:
- "Ghent, Belgium, 2-3 June 2005."
- "This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium."--P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612763588
- 9781282763586
- 128276358X
- 9789814299053
- 9814299057
- OCLC:
- 681584842
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