Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an account of how we should conduct our business qua metaphysicians.
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Introduction PART I: ON THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS 1. A Return to Scholastic Metaphysics 2. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics 3. Evolutionary Biology meets Scholastic Metaphysics PART II: THE TURN TO BIOLOGY 4. Counting biological individuals 5. Evolutionary Biology, Change, and Essentialism 6. Evolutionary Biology, Modality and Explanation 7. Evolutionary Biology and EthicsÜber den Autor
Stephen Boulter is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author ofThe Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 179 ● ISBN 9781137322821 ● Dateigröße 1.5 MB ● Verlag Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2013 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 3359757 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM