Rethinking Metaphysics
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-778780-9 (ISBN)
Thomasson argues that the problems with prior approaches to metaphysics arise from a problematic assumption that all discourse functions in the same way. Drawing on work in linguistics, she shows how to develop a richer view of linguistic functions that enables us to see why this assumption leads us astray. By better understanding the plurality of linguistic functions, she argues, we can also disentangle ourselves from many old metaphysical problems--including problems about properties, numbers, morality and modality.
In place of the traditional model, we should think of metaphysics as work in conceptual engineering--including both a reverse engineering project aimed at understanding how various parts of our language and conceptual scheme work and what functions they serve, and a constructive engineering project that investigates what concepts and language we should use and how we should use them. Rethinking metaphysics as conceptual engineering in this way enables us to avoid the problems of traditional metaphysics, while also demonstrating the perennial importance of metaphysics to human life.
Amie L. Thomasson is the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College. She is the author of four prior books: Ontology Made Easy (2014, winner of the Sanders Book Prize), Norms and Necessity (2020), Ordinary Objects (2007), and Fiction and Metaphysics (1998); and co-editor of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind (2005). She has also published more than 80 papers on topics in metaphysics, philosophical methodology and metametaphysics, philosophy of art, social ontology, philosophy of mind and phenomenology. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has twice held Fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Part I. Why We Should Rethink Metaphysics
Chapter 1: The Traditional Conception of Metaphysics
Chapter 2: The Explanatory Conception of Metaphysics
Chapter 3: The Structural Conception of Metaphysics
Chapter 4: The Truthmaker Conception of Metaphysics
Chapter 5: Fundamentality and Grounding Projects
Part II. How We Should Rethink Metaphysics
Chapter 6: Metaphysics as Conceptual Engineering
Chapter 7: Identifying Linguistic Functions
Chapter 8: Reverse Engineering: Unraveling Metaphysical Problems
Chapter 9: Pragmatic Conceptual Engineering
Chapter 10: The Perennial Philosophical Project
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.04.2025 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 201 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-778780-0 / 0197787800 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-778780-9 / 9780197787809 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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