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Every Thing Must Go - Metaphysics Naturalized (Hardcover)
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Every Thing Must Go - Metaphysics Naturalized (Hardcover)
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Every Thing Must Go aruges that the only kind of metaphysics that
can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on
contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a
priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In
addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from
connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of
not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a
metaphysics compatible with current fundamental phsyics ("ontic
structural realism"), which, when combined with their metaphysics
of the special sciences ("rainforet realism"), can be used to unify
physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to
physics intself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman
and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture
of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and
the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects.
Every Thing Must Go also assesses the role of information theory
and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship
between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road
between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and
eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's
metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science
are explored, including the implications for the realism vs.
empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific
explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of
abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural
kinds
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