Metaphysics and cognitive science
by Goldman, Alvin I. McLaughlin, Brian P.
This volume illustrates how the methodology of metaphysics can be enriched with the help of cognitive science. Issues to which results from cognitive science are brought to bear include the metaphysics of time, of morality, of meaning, of modality, of objects, and of natural kinds, as well as whether God exists.
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- Full title :Metaphysics and cognitive science / edited by Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin.
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This volume illustrates how the methodology of metaphysics can be enriched with the help of cognitive science. Issues to which results from cognitive science are brought to bear include the metaphysics of time, of morality, of meaning, of modality, of objects, and of natural kinds, as well as whether God exists.
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- Publication Date:2019
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190639709, 0190639709, 9780190639686, 0190639687
- oclc:on1090060476
- LC Classification:BF311
- Dewey Decimal:153
Table of Contents
Cover; Metaphysics and Cognitive Science; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I; 1. Time Lost, Time Regained; 2. Cognitive Science and Metaphysics: Partners in Debunking; Part II; 3. Moral Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, and the Cognitive Sciences; 4. Debunking and Vindicating in Moral Psychology; Part III; 5. On Perceiving God: Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religious Experience; 6. God and Cognitive Science: A Bayesian Approach; Part IV; 7. Cognitive Psychology and the Metaphysics of Meaning; 8. Natural Language and Its Ontology; Part V; 9. Modal Prospection
10. Against Phenomenal Parsimony: A Plea for Bodily FeelingsPart VI; 11. Does the Identity of an Object Depend on Its Category? The Role of Sortals in Thought; 12. What the Study of Psychological Essentialism May Reveal about the Natural World; Part VII; 13. Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics; 14. Cognitive Science for the Revisionary Metaphysician; 15. Unbunking Arguments: A Case Study in Metaphysics and Cognitive Science; Index
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