TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beards,Andrew
TI  - Method in Metaphysics
SN  - 9780802097521
AV  - B995.L654 B42 2008eb
U1  - 191 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Analysis (Philosophy)
KW  - First philosophy
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - In the last few decades, analytical philosophers have rediscovered an interest in the subject of metaphysics. Surveying the contributions made by these philosophers, Method in Metaphysics initiates a critical dialogue between analytical metaphysics and the philosophy of Bernard Lonergan. It argues for a basic method in metaphysics, a method that arises from a critically grounded epistemology and cognitional theory. In addition, it serves as a much-needed overview and introduction to current trends in analytical metaphysics.Andrew Beards shows how Lonergan's philosophy can help to clarify not only particular issues in current debates but also the larger question of a basic method. He goes on to apply this method to topics at the forefront of discussions in contemporary philosophy - topics such as universals, tropes, events, causality, and the metaphysics of the self and the social. While the main focus of the study is on Lonergan and analytical philosophy, Beards also introduces the philosophies of Whitehead, Husserl, and Derrida into the debate. He brings Lonergan's critical realist philosophy into finely textured dialogue with a number of well-known contemporary metaphysicians such as Dummet, Putnam, Lewis, and Kripke
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