Worldviews, science, and us : studies of analytical metaphysics : a selection of topics from a methodological perspective /

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Meeting name:	Metaphysics of Science Workshop (5th : 2005 : Ghent, Belgium)
Imprint:	Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 241 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Analysis (Philosophy) -- Congresses. Metaphysics -- Congresses. Philosophy and science -- Congresses. Analysis (Philosophy) Metaphysics. Philosophy and science. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11233126

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Other authors / contributors:	Vanderbeeken, Robrecht. D'Hooghe, Bart.
ISBN:	9789814299053 9814299057 9789814295819 9814295817
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Print version record.
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?
Other form:	Print version: Metaphysics of Science Workshop (5th : 2005 : Ghent, Belgium). Worldviews, science, and us. Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2010 9789814295819

Table of 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.

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