A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics
Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough
Published on 12. April 2021
V, 97 pages
978-3-030-72603-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz's ("demiurgic") idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
V, 97 p.
File size
1,14 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-72603-4 (9783030726034)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-72603-4
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
04/2021
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Ulrich Steinvorth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and lives in the United States. He has published numerous books and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics in German, English, and French, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan, China, and the USA.
Content
Chapter 1: Why Naturalistic Metaphysics is Needed.- Chapter 2: The Ontology of Escalation. - Chapter 3: Practical Conclusions.
