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How do we come to know metaphysical truths? How does metaphysical
inquiry work? Are metaphysical debates substantial? These are the
questions which characterize metametaphysics. This book, the first
systematic student introduction dedicated to metametaphysics,
discusses the nature of metaphysics - its methodology,
epistemology, ontology and our access to metaphysical knowledge. It
provides students with a firm grounding in the basics of
metametaphysics, covering a broad range of topics in metaontology
such as existence, quantification, ontological commitment and
ontological realism. Contemporary views are discussed along with
those of Quine, Carnap and Meinong. Going beyond the
metaontological debate, thorough treatment is given to novel topics
in metametaphysics, including grounding, ontological dependence,
fundamentality, modal epistemology, intuitions, thought experiments
and the relationship between metaphysics and science. The book will
be an essential resource for those studying advanced metaphysics,
philosophical methodology, metametaphysics, epistemology and the
philosophy of science.
Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently
undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together
fourteen new essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic
to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the
idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input
from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his
metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories,
the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence,
substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of
life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of
ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong
foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for
scholars and advanced students who are interested in the
foundations and development of philosophy.
Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both
philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion,
largely because of its association with reductionism and the
challenge from multiple realisation. Pluralism and the disunity of
science are the new norm, and higher-level natural kinds and
special science laws are considered to have an important role in
scientific practice. What kind of reductionism does multiple
realisability challenge? What does it take to reduce one phenomenon
to another? How do we determine which kinds are natural? What is
the ontological basis of unity? In this Element, Tuomas Tahko
examines these questions from a contemporary perspective, after a
historical overview. The upshot is that there is still value in the
idea of a unity of science. We can combine a modest sense of unity
with pluralism and give an ontological analysis of unity in terms
of natural kind monism. This title is available as Open Access on
Cambridge Core.
How do we come to know metaphysical truths? How does metaphysical
inquiry work? Are metaphysical debates substantial? These are the
questions which characterize metametaphysics. This book, the first
systematic student introduction dedicated to metametaphysics,
discusses the nature of metaphysics - its methodology,
epistemology, ontology and our access to metaphysical knowledge. It
provides students with a firm grounding in the basics of
metametaphysics, covering a broad range of topics in metaontology
such as existence, quantification, ontological commitment and
ontological realism. Contemporary views are discussed along with
those of Quine, Carnap and Meinong. Going beyond the
metaontological debate, thorough treatment is given to novel topics
in metametaphysics, including grounding, ontological dependence,
fundamentality, modal epistemology, intuitions, thought experiments
and the relationship between metaphysics and science. The book will
be an essential resource for those studying advanced metaphysics,
philosophical methodology, metametaphysics, epistemology and the
philosophy of science.
Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently
undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together
fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to
this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea
that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from
Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his
metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories,
the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence,
substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of
life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of
ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong
foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for
scholars and advanced students who are interested in the
foundations and development of philosophy.
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