S. Boulter

Metaphysics from a Biological Point of View (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137322821
• Artikelnr.: 41499616

Autorenporträt

Stephen Boulter is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Ethics