Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function - Brossura

Koerner, Stephan

 
9780521338028: Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function
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ISBN 10: 0521338026 ISBN 13: 9780521338028
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sinossi

This is an ambitious and substantial study of metaphysics: its nature and inescapability.

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Descrizione del libro

This is an ambitious and substantial study of metaphysics: its nature and inescapability. Professor Körner's method may be described as 'philosophical anthropology', and aims to arrive at a characterisation of the metaphysical beliefs with which we (have to) operate.

Contenuti

Preface; Introduction; Part I. On the organisation of beliefs and attitudes: 1. On the cognitive organisation of experience; 2. On the organisation of practical attitudes; 3. On the aesthetic attitudes; 4. Immanent and transcendent philosophy; Part II. On Immanent and Transcendent Metaphysics: 5. The principles of logic as supreme cognitive principles; 6. On mathematical thinking as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 7. On predictive and instrumental thinking about nature as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 8. On thinking about persons and mental phenomena as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 9. On thinking about social phenomena and history as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 10. On delimiting a person's immanent metaphysics; 11. Transcendent metaphysics and the application of concepts; 12. Transcendent metaphysics and the limits of conceptual thinking; 13. On antimetaphysical errors and illusions; Part III. Stability and Change in Metaphysics: 14. On internal strains; 15. On external pressures exerted by methodological and other arguments; 16. On metaphysical pluralism, intrametaphysical and metaphysical progress; 17. Some speculations about transcendent reality; Summary of Theses; Index.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521338026
ISBN 13 
9780521338028
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
252
Contatto del produttore
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Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521264960 ISBN 13:  9780521264969
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984
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