Metametaphysics and the Sciences: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032176833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 300 str.

Frode Kjosavik; Camilla Serck-Hanssen

Opis

This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection of philosophy and science. In asking how metaphysics is possible in an age of science, the contributors draw on philosophical tools provided by three great thinkers who were fully conversant with and actively engaged with the sciences of their day: Kant, Husserl, and Frege.

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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

O autorze

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.