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Pragmatist Metaphysics - An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of Ontology (Hardcover, New)
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Pragmatist Metaphysics - An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of Ontology (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Studies in American Philosophy
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This book provides novel reading of the relations between two
central philosophical disciplines - metaphysics and ethics.
"Pragmatist Metaphysics" proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of
the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding
metaphysics as a 'first philosophy', an inquiry into the world
independent of human perspectives, the pragmatist views metaphysics
as an inquiry into categorizations of reality laden with human
practices. Insofar as our categorizations of reality are
practice-laden, they are also, inevitably, value-laden.Sami
Pihlstrom argues that metaphysics does not, then, study the world's
'own' categorical structure, but a structure we, through our
conceptual and practical activities, impose on the reality we
experience and interact with. Engaging with the classical American
pragmatists, in particular William James, and neopragmatists,
including Hilary Putnam, the author seeks to correct long-held
misconceptions regarding the nature of the relationship between
metaphysics and pragmatism. He argues that a coherent metaphysical
alternative to the currently fashionable realist metaphysics
emerges from pragmatism and that pragmatism itself should be
reinterpreted in a metaphysically serious manner. Moreover, the
book argues that, from a pragmatist perspective, metaphysics must
be inextricably linked with ethics.
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