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Inductive Metaphysics justifies metaphysical principles by inductive or abductive inferences from empirical evidence, rather than by purely logico-conceptual considerations. This is the first volume to provide a representative picture of current research and debates in this branch of metaphysics.
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Introduction to the Contributions List of Contributors
Part 1: Inductive Metaphysics in the History of Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy 1. Inductive Metaphysics: Historical Reconstruction and Defense against its Critics 2. Inductive Metaphysics in Contemporary Philosophy: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects 3. Inductive Metaphysics in the Context of Two Movements: Critical Realism and Logical Empiricism 4. Inductive Reasoning in Kant's Metaphysics of Nature
Part 2: Inductive Metaphysics and the Method of Abduction 5. Why Abduction, not Deduction, is Indefeasible 6. Logical Abductivism: Challenges and Prospects 7. Abduction in Philosophy of Mind
Part 3: Ground, Explanation and Data in the Context of Inductive Metaphysics 8. Inductive Metaphysics: Lessons for the Notion of Ground 9. Skepticism about Metaphysical Explanation 10. Data, Curve-Fitting, and Model-Building in the Metaphysics of Laws and Causation
Part 4: Inductive Metaphysics and the Formation of Concepts 11. Naturalness and Concept Learning: Recent Progress and Prospects 12. Conceptual Re-Engineering for Inductive Metaphysicians
Part 5: Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Physics 13. Simplicity as a Guide to Scientific Metaphysics 14. On Solving the Problem of the Direction of Time
Part 6: Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences 15. Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences: Extrinsicality, Multi-levelness, and Processuality 16. Metaphysics of Evolution and the Propensity Concept of Fitness
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Andreas Hüttemann is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Cologne. He is the author of
A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice (2021) and has published many book chapters and journal articles on metaphysics, philosophy of science and early modern philosophy.
Gerhard Schurz is a Senior Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf. He has published more than 270 research papers and 12 books, including
Philosophy of Science (Routledge 2014),
Hume's Problem Solved (2019) and
Optimality Justifications (2024).
