Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical Metaphysics - a Selection of Topics from a Methodological Perspective - Proceedings of the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop

Vanderbeeken, Robrecht (EDT)/ D'hooghe, Bart (EDT)

World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd（2009/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 248 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789814295819
• DDC分類 501

基本説明

The aim of this volume is twofold. First it fields a selection of ongoing discussions on a central topic in contemporary analytical metaphysics. Second, this volume addresses the methodological question by examining what can be learned if we compare these discussion from a methodological perspective.

Full Description

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?