The evolution of modern metaphysics: making sense of things
by Moore, A. W.
This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.
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- Full title :The evolution of modern metaphysics : making sense of things / A.W. Moore, University of Oxford.
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This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xxi, 668 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139029223, 1139029223, 9781139206228, 1139206222, 9781139204644, 1139204645
- oclc:on1104393129
- LC Classification:BD111
- Dewey Decimal:110.9/03
Table of Contents
Descartes : metaphysics in the service of science -- Spinoza : metaphysics in the service of ethics -- Leibniz : metaphysics in the service of theodicy -- Hume : metaphysics committed to the flames? -- Kant : the possibility, scope, and limits of metaphysics -- Fichte: transcendentalism versus naturalism -- Hegel : transcendentalism-cum-naturalism; or, absolute idealism -- Frege : sense under scrutiny -- The early Wittgenstein : the possibility, scope, and limits of sense; or, sense, senselessness, and nonsense -- The later Wittgenstein : bringing words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use -- Carnap : the elimination of metaphysics? -- Quine : the ne plus ultra of naturalism -- Lewis : metaphysics in the service of philosophy -- Dummett : the logical basis of metaphysics -- Nietzsche : sense under scrutiny again -- Bergson : metaphysics as pure creativity -- Husserl : making sense of making sense; or, the ne plus ultra of transcendentalism -- Heidegger : letting being be -- Collingwood : metaphysics as history -- Derrida : metaphysics deconstructed? -- Deleuze : something completely different.
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