Scientific Ontology Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology

Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investigations are relevant to philosophy. This book argues that there is no uniquely rational way to determine which domains of ontology are appropriate for belief, making room for choice in a transformative account of scientific ontology.

Info autore

Anjan Chakravartty is the Appignani Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he works on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. He has taught previously at the Universities of Cambridge, Toronto, and Notre Dame.

Riassunto

Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investigations are relevant to philosophy. This book argues that there is no uniquely rational way to determine which domains of ontology are appropriate for belief, making room for choice in a transformative account of scientific ontology.

Testo aggiuntivo

A smart, historically informed, highly readable-and commendably nontechnical-defense of 'natural ontology', according to which science and metaphysics are inextricably intertwined. The book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science, and to anyone who has wondered about the place of metaphysics in a world in which science has come to be the measure of all things.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anjan Chakravartty, Chakravartty Anjan, Anjan (Appignani Foundation Professo Chakravartty
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2020
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazi; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780197510254
• ISBN: 978-0-19-751025-4
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Serie: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science; Oxford Studies in Philosophy o; OXFORD STUDIES IN PHILOS SCIENCE SERIES; Oxford Studies in Philos Scien
• Categorie: Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Philosophiegeschichte, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy