Metametaphysics and the sciences : historical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Frode Kjosavik and Camilla Serck-Hanssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kjosavik, Frode, editor.

Serck-Hanssen, Camilla, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in metaphysics ; v. 15.

Routledge studies in metaphysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy and science.

Metaphysics.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

vi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science. A unique feature is the way in which it is guided both by history of philosophy, by interaction between philosophy and science, and by methodological awareness. In asking how metaphysics is possible in an age of science, the contributors draw on philosophical tools provided by three great thinkers who were fully conversant with and actively engaged with the sciences of their day: Kant, Husserl, and Frege. Part I sets out frameworks for scientifically informed metaphysics in accordance with the meta-metaphysics outlined by these three self-reflective philosophers. Part II explores the domain for co-existent metaphysics and science. Constraints on ambitious critical metaphysics are laid down in close consideration of logic, meta-theory, and specific conditions for science. Part III exemplifies the role of language and science in contemporary metaphysics. Quine's pursuit of truth is analysed; Cantor's absolute infinitude is reconstrued in modal terms; and sense is made of Weyl's take on the relationship between mathematics and empirical aspects of physics. With chapters by leading scholars, Metametaphysics and the Sciences is an in-depth resource for researchers and advanced students working within metaphysics, philosophy of science, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Kant on method and evidence in metaphysics / Frode Kjosavik

Essence, nature, and the possibility of metaphysics / Houston Smit

Toward a Husserlian (meta)metaphysics / Christian Beyer

Frege on "es gibt," being in a realm and (meta)ontology / Leila Haaparanta Thinking-the-world / Joseph Almog, Olli Koistinen

Kant's metaphysics of nature and freedom / Michael Friedman

From nothing to something : why metaphysics cannot be reduced to logic / Camilla Serck-Hanssen

Transcendentally idealistic metaphysics and counterfactual transcendental arguments / Toni Kannisto

Phenomenology as constitutive realism / David Woodruff Smith

Husserl on 'besinnung' and formal ontology Mirja Hartimo

Quine on truth and metaphysics / Charles Parsons

The paradox of the largest number : from Aristotle to Cantor / Øystein Linnebo

Symbolic construction from the "purely infinitesimal" : gauge invariance, lie algebras, and metaphysics chez Hermann Weyl / Thomas Ryckman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Metametaphysics and the sciences

ISBN:

9780367263690

0367263696

OCLC:

1107518371