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Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics (Hardcover)
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If there is one utterly inescapable problem for the metaphysician,
it is this: is metaphysics itself a theoretically legitimate
discipline? Is it, in other words, capable of a systematic and
well-confirmed set of theoretical results? And if not, why not?
From its inception, metaphysics has found itself exercised by the
nagging worry that its own inquiries might reveal it to be a
subject without an object, or a mode of inquiry without a method.
Such concerns were voiced as early as Plato's discussion of the
battle between the Gods and Giants. Since then, no era of its
history has spared metaphysics some rehearsal of this question. In
Empiricism and the Problem of Metaphysics, Paul Studtmann defends
an empiricist critique of metaphysical theorizing. At the heart of
the critique is an empiricist view of a priori knowledge, according
to which all a priori knowledge is empirical knowledge of the
results of effective procedures. Such a view of a priori knowledge
places severe limits on the scope a priori speculation and indeed
places beyond our ken the types of claims that metaphysicians as
well as traditional epistemologists and ethicists have typically
wanted to make.
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