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Unorthodox Humeanism / Georg Sparber.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Logos : Studien zur Logik, Sprachphilosophie und Metaphysik ; 14Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110323740
  • 9783110323986
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160
LOC classification:
  • BD111 .S66 2009
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- The nature of fundamental properties -- Chapter 1: Orthodox Humeanism on laws of nature and causation -- Chapter 2: Orthodox dispositionalism on laws of nature and causation -- Chapter 3: Humeanism vs. dispositionalism -- Chapter 4: Unorthodox Humeanism -- Humean metaphysics of causation as informed of contemporary science -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical arguments to show that orthodox Humeanism is in trouble. The unorthodox metaphysical turn consists in taking the fundamental properties to be relations rather than intrinsic properties. The book spells out in detail what an unorthodox version of Humeanism amounts to and shows that in turning unorthodox Humeanism offers a competitive metaphysical framework for science without commitment to irreducible causation.
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- The nature of fundamental properties -- Chapter 1: Orthodox Humeanism on laws of nature and causation -- Chapter 2: Orthodox dispositionalism on laws of nature and causation -- Chapter 3: Humeanism vs. dispositionalism -- Chapter 4: Unorthodox Humeanism -- Humean metaphysics of causation as informed of contemporary science -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

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The book discusses contemporary metaphysics of science and deals with the central question which ontology fits best with our knowledge of the world. Two competing positions in today's metaphysics of science are analysed: Humeanism and dispositionalism. There are physical and metaphysical arguments to show that orthodox Humeanism is in trouble. The unorthodox metaphysical turn consists in taking the fundamental properties to be relations rather than intrinsic properties. The book spells out in detail what an unorthodox version of Humeanism amounts to and shows that in turning unorthodox Humeanism offers a competitive metaphysical framework for science without commitment to irreducible causation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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