| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) |
| Contents |
Worldviews, science and us: studies of analytical metaphysics. A selection of topics from a methodological perspective / Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D'Hooghe -- Introduction: contemporary analytic metaphysics, it crisis and challenge / Robrecht Vanderbeeken -- Holism and structural realism / Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam -- Common sense, relativity and theories of time / Phil Dowe -- Purely dispositional worlds / Sungho Choi -- Natural kinds- what are they? / Joanna Odrowa̦ż-Sypniewska -- Personal identity, conceptual analysis and no-fault disagreement / Caroline West -- A world of tropes? / Anna-Sofia Maurin -- Casual pluralism / Stathis Psillos -- Why social emergence? Discussing the use of analytical metaphysics in social theory / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Counterfactuals, causation and humean supervenience / Paul Noordhof -- Disentangling causal pluralism / Leen de Vreese -- Mathematical entities / Lieven Decock |
| Summary |
This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium. The aim of this volume is twofold. First, it fields a selection of ongoing discussions on a central topic in contemporary analytical metaphysics. Authors were asked to encapsulate their lecture topic into a précis, highlighting the contesting views, accentuating the pro and contra of the main arguments, and shedding light on the origin, the evolution and the eventual offspring of a respective discussion. Second, this volume addresses the methodological question by examining what can be learned if we compare these discussions from a methodological perspective. What are the red herrings and shortcomings? Is an integrated methodology possible? Does each discussion finally await a pluralism of plausible positions or will an overall convincing account be expected? And finally, can analytical metaphysics methodologically assert and investigate their basic assumptions, if not from a common sense stance? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Analysis (Philosophy) -- Congresses
|
|
Metaphysics -- Congresses
|
|
Philosophy and science -- Congresses
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
|
|
Analysis (Philosophy)
|
|
Metaphysics
|
|
Philosophy and science
|
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Vanderbeeken, Robrecht.
|
|
D'Hooghe, Bart.
|
| ISBN |
9789814299053 |
|
9814299057 |
|
