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
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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.
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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.