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Scientific metaphysics / edited by Don Ross, James Ladyman, and Harold Kincaid.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Philosophy and science.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural science. They engage with a range of approaches and disciplines to argue that if metaphysics is to be capable of identifying objective truths, it must be continuous with and inspired by science.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: pursuing a naturalist metaphysics
- 2. On the prospects of naturalized metaphysics
- 3. Scientific ontology and speculative ontology
- 4. Can metaphysics be naturalized? And if so, how?
- 5. Kinds of things ... towards a bestiary of the manifest image
- 6. The world in the data
- 7. What can contemporary philosophy learn from our 'scientific philosophy' heritage?
- 8. Neo-Kantianism, scientific realism, and modern physics
- 9. Some remarks on 'naturalism' as we now have it
- 10. Causation, free will, and naturalism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-874410-2
- 1-283-83492-8
- 0-19-164155-3
- OCLC:
- 922971572
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