Andreas Huttemann

Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What are the metaphysical commitments which best 'make sense' of our scientific practice (rather than our scientific theories)? In this book, Andreas Huttemann provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, i.e. a metaphysics that refrains from postulating any structure that is explanatorily irrelevant. Huttemann closely analyses paradigmatic aspects of scientific practice, such as prediction, explanation and manipulation, to consider the questions whether and (if so) what metaphysical presuppositions best account for these practices. He looks at the role which scientific generalisation (laws of nature) play in predicting, testing, and explaining the behaviour of systems. He also develops a theory of causation in terms of quasi-inertial processes and interfering factors, and he proposes an account of reductive practices that makes minimal metaphysical assumptions. His book will be valuable for scholars and advanced students working in both philosophy of science and metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009021050
• Artikelnr.: 66176658

Autorenporträt

Andreas Hüttemann is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Cologne. He is the author of What's Wrong with Microphysicalism? (2004) and Ursachen (2013), and has published many book chapters and journal articles on metaphysics, philosophy of science and early modern philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Laws of nature and their modal surface structure
2. The problem of ceteris paribus clauses
3. Causation - conceptual groundwork
4. Causation - application and augmentation
5. Reductive practices
6. Reduction and physical foundationalism
7. Reduction and ontological monism
8. Concluding remarks: methods and epistemic sources in metaphysics.