Scientific Realism Without Reality? What Happens When Metaphysics is Left Out
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DOI: 10.1007/s10699-020-09705-w
Abstract: Scientific realism is usually presented as if metaphysical realism (i.e. the thesis that there is a structured mind-independent external world) were one of its essential parts. This paper aims to examine how weak the metaphysical… read more here.
Keywords: metaphysics; without reality; scientific realism; metaphysical realism ... See more keywords
“Metaphysics Without Ethics is Blind”: The Legacy of Hilary Putnam
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DOI: 10.1007/s10838-017-9385-9
Abstract: Two convictions underlie the following article. The first is that Hilary Putnam has been one of the greatest thinkers of our time, a philosopher who was able to propose groundbreaking ideas in virtually every area… read more here.
Keywords: hilary putnam; philosophy; metaphysics without; without ethics ... See more keywords
Taking stock of the metaphysics of science debate: drawing disciplinary frontiers
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DOI: 10.1007/s11016-017-0182-1
Abstract: The ongoing debate on the metaphysics of science (hereafter, MS) surely is one of the most exciting things in the philosophy arena these days. There was a funded research project on the MS carried out… read more here.
Keywords: metaphysics science; university; taking stock; debate ... See more keywords
Inferring particles
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DOI: 10.1007/s11016-018-0340-0
Abstract: In his excellent book, Chakravartty builds a strong case for a particular conception of the relationship of science to metaphysics. Metaphysics, he contends, is inescapable: even the most diehard empiricist must make use of metaphysical… read more here.
Keywords: risk; ontology; base; ontological claims ... See more keywords
The metaphysics of goodness in the ethics of Aristotle
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-016-0824-y
Abstract: Kraut (Against absolute goodness. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) and other neo-Aristotelians have argued that there is no such thing as absolute goodness. They admit only good in a kind, e.g. a good sculptor, and… read more here.
Keywords: absolute goodness; good kind; good something; goodness ... See more keywords
Against explanatory realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-017-0862-0
Abstract: Explanatory realism is the position that all explanations give information about whatever metaphysically determines the explanandum. This view is popular and plays a central role in metaphysics, but in this paper I argue that explanatory… read more here.
Keywords: explanation; position; explanatory realism; metaphysics ... See more keywords
A puzzle about Moorean metaphysics
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-020-01442-x
Abstract: Some metaphysicians believe that existence debates are easily resolved by trivial inferences from Moorean premises. This paper considers how the introduction of negative Moorean facts—negative existentials that command Moorean certainty —complicates this picture. In particular,… read more here.
Keywords: moorean metaphysics; metaphysics; puzzle moorean;
What are social groups? Their metaphysics and how to classify them
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1387-y
Abstract: This paper presents a systematic approach for analyzing and explaining the nature of social groups. I argue against prominent views that attempt to unify all social groups or to divide them into simple typologies. Instead… read more here.
Keywords: groups metaphysics; social groups; metaphysics; metaphysics classify ... See more keywords
Why the Canberra plan won’t help you do serious metaphysics
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1430-z
Abstract: Jackson (From metaphysics to ethics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998) argues that conceptual analysis plays a modest, albeit crucial, role in ‘serious metaphysics’: roughly, the project of demystifying phenomena we take to be mysterious by… read more here.
Keywords: canberra plan; serious metaphysics; metaphysics; conceptual analysis ... See more keywords
Logic without metaphysics
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02124-w
Abstract: Standard definitions of logical consequence for formal languages are atomistic. They take as their starting point a range of possible assignments of semantic values to the extralogical atomic constituents of the language, each of which… read more here.
Keywords: possible assignments; logical consequence; language; assignments semantic ... See more keywords
New powers for Dispositionalism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02906-7
Abstract: Establishing Dispositionalism as a viable theory of modality requires the successful fulfilment of two tasks: (i) showing that all modal truths can be derived from truths about actual powers, and (ii) offering a suitable metaphysics… read more here.
Keywords: dispositionalism; new powers; powers dispositionalism; metaphysics powers ... See more keywords