Approaches to Metaphysics
Published on 29. June 2004
Book
Hardback
X, 336 pages
978-1-4020-2181-7 (ISBN)
Description
Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental questions of metaphysics. Drawing on scholars from continental Europe, Asia, Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and representing a variety of philosophical cultures and traditions, this volume surveys and extends work in metaphysics and its implications for broader philosophical concerns (e.g., in ethics and social philosophy, in mathematics and logic, and in epistemology). It also addresses such questions as the role of history and historicity in undertaking metaphysics, the nature of metaphysics, the priority of metaphysics over epistemology, and the challenges of empiricism and postmodernism.
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Edition
2004 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
X, 336 p.
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-2181-7 (9781402021817)
DOI
10.1007/1-4020-2182-8
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William Sweet
Approaches to Metaphysics
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Content
Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously.- Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously.- Issues in Classical Metaphysics.- Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real).- Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel.- Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony.- Modern Challenges to the Scope of Metaphysics.- The Integration of History and Metaphysics.- Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche's Path to the Holy.- Can 'Creation' Be a Metaphysical Concept?.- Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara.- On the Road to Metaphysics - Freedom, Agency, and Existence.- Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt's Account of Evil and Human Freedom.- Agents, Causes, and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System.- Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function.- Metaphysical Theories in a Contemporary Context.- Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato.- Metaphysics and Idealism.- Empiricism: Principles and Problems.- The Possibility of Metaphysics.- Metaphysics as "De Insolubilibus".- Designing Metaphysics.