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Metametaphysics and the Sciences: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Metametaphysics and the Sciences Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

Edited By Frode Kjosavik, Camilla Serck-Hanssen Copyright 2020
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge
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 This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science. A unique feature is the way in which it is guided both by history of philosophy, by interaction between philosophy and science, and by methodological awareness. In asking how metaphysics is possible in an age of science, the contributors draw on philosophical tools provided by three great... Read more

Preface





Introduction



Frode Kjosavik and Camilla Serck-Hanssen





Part I: Metametaphysics: The Very Possibility of Metaphysics





1. Kant on Method and Evidence in Metaphysics



Frode Kjosavik



2. Essence, Nature, and the Possibility of Metaphysics



Houston Smit



3. Towards a Husserlian (Meta-)Metaphysics



Christian Beyer



4. Frege on "Es gibt," Being in a Realm, and (Meta-)Ontology



Leila Haaparanta





Part II: Critical Metaphysics: The Scope and Limits of Metaphysics





5. Thinking-the-world. Science, philosophy, and religion’s threefold quest for the one infinitary Ur-Being



Joseph Almog and Olli Koistinen



6. Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature and Freedom



Michael Friedman



7. From Nothing to Something – Why Metaphysics Cannot Be Reduced to Logic



Camilla Serck-Hanssen



8. Transcendentally Idealistic Metaphysics and Counterfactual Transcendental Arguments



Toni Kannisto



9. Phenomenology as Constitutive Realism



David Woodruff Smith



10. Husserl on ‘Besinnung’ and Formal Ontology



Mirja Hartimo





Part III: Contemporary Metaphysics: The Role of Language and Science





11. Quine on Truth and Metaphysics



Charles Parsons



12. The Paradox of the Largest Number: From Aristotle to Cantor



Øystein Linnebo



13. Symbolic Construction from the "Purely Infinitesimal": Gauge Invariance, Lie Algebras, and Metaphysics chez Hermann Weyl



Thomas Ryckman

Biography

Frode Kjosavik is Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He was a group leader in Philosophy at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2015/16. He is the co-editor, with Christian Beyer and Christel Fricke, of Husserl’s Phenomenology of Intersubjectivity: Historical Interpretations and Contemporary Applications (Routledge, 2019).





Camilla Serck-Hanssen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was a group leader in Philosophy at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2015/16. She is now the Scientific Director of the Centre. She is also co-leader of ConceptLab at the University of Oslo.

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