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Scientific Ontology - Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology (Paperback)
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Scientific Ontology - Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
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Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology
- questions about what exists and what these things are like.
Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of
investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to
the sciences, conceived as something apart from philosophy, and
others to metaphysics, conceived as something apart from science,
for certain kinds of answers. This book contends that these sorts
of deference are misconceived. A compelling account of ontology
must appreciate the ways in which the sciences incorporate
metaphysical assumptions and arguments. At the same time, it must
pay careful attention to how observation, experience, and the
empirical dimensions of science are related to what may be viewed
as defensible philosophical theorizing about ontology. The promise
of an effectively naturalized metaphysics is to encourage beliefs
that are formed in ways that do justice to scientific theorizing,
modeling, and experimentation. But even armed with such a view,
there is no one, uniquely rational way to draw lines between
domains of ontology that are suitable for belief, and ones in which
it would be better to suspend belief instead. In crucial respects,
ontology is in the eye of the beholder: it is informed by
underlying commitments with implications for the limits of inquiry,
which inevitably vary across rational inquirers. As result, the
proper scope of ontology is subject to a striking form of voluntary
choice, yielding a new and transformative conception of scientific
ontology.
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