Metaphysics - Stephan Körner

Metaphysics

Its Structure and Function

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
252 Seiten
1986
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-33802-8 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
This is an ambitious and substantial study of metaphysics: its nature and inescapability. Professor Körner's method may be described as 'philosophical anthropology', and aims to arrive at a characterisation of the metaphysical beliefs with which we (have to) operate. Professor Körner begins by describing how the categorical framework of a person's metaphysical beliefs may be embedded in more ordinary beliefs and practical attitudes to the world. He illustrates the variety of such frameworks and describes their role, going on to explain how they may be modified by argument and reflection. This is an independent inquiry, but also the culmination of a series of Professor Körner's earlier works. The writing is extremely clear and the material sensitively controlled, revealing great learning and many suggestive insights and comparisons. It presents overall a comprehensive and carefully thought-out account of metaphysics.

Preface; Introduction; Part I. On the organisation of beliefs and attitudes: 1. On the cognitive organisation of experience; 2. On the organisation of practical attitudes; 3. On the aesthetic attitudes; 4. Immanent and transcendent philosophy; Part II. On Immanent and Transcendent Metaphysics: 5. The principles of logic as supreme cognitive principles; 6. On mathematical thinking as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 7. On predictive and instrumental thinking about nature as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 8. On thinking about persons and mental phenomena as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 9. On thinking about social phenomena and history as a possible source of immanent metaphysics; 10. On delimiting a person's immanent metaphysics; 11. Transcendent metaphysics and the application of concepts; 12. Transcendent metaphysics and the limits of conceptual thinking; 13. On antimetaphysical errors and illusions; Part III. Stability and Change in Metaphysics: 14. On internal strains; 15. On external pressures exerted by methodological and other arguments; 16. On metaphysical pluralism, intrametaphysical and metaphysical progress; 17. Some speculations about transcendent reality; Summary of Theses; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.5.1986
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 370 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10 0-521-33802-6 / 0521338026
ISBN-13 978-0-521-33802-8 / 9780521338028
Zustand Neuware
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