Pragmatist metaphysics : an essay on the ethical grounds of ontology / Sami Pihlstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pihlström, Sami.

Series:

Continuum studies in American philosophy.

Continuum studies in American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a 'first philosophy', an inquiry into the world independent of human perspectives, the pragmatist views metaphysics as an inquiry into categorizations of reality laden with human practices. Insofar as our categorizations of reality are practice-laden, they are also, inevitably, value-laden. Sami Pihlström argues that metaphysics does not, then, study the world's 'own' categorial structure, but a structure we, through our conceptual and practical acti

Contents:

Introduction

Realism, truthmaking, and a pragmatist view on truth and reality

The transcendental method in pragmatist metaphysics

Seeking a via media : metaphysical conflicts pragmatically reconsidered

The ethical grounds of metaphysics

Modal and moral realisms

Pragmatism and religious metaphysics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-212) and index.

ISBN:

9786612871238

9781282871236

1282871234

9781441108197

144110819X

OCLC:

676698676