Metaphysics and Explanation

Capitan, W. H. (EDT); Merrill, D. D. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0822985837 / ISBN 13: 9780822985839

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966

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Inhaltsangabe:

This volume offers an unusual variety of topics presented during the fifth annual Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy.  Essays topics include: a dispute of the standard deductivist account of scientific testability; two definitions of “nonsense” that are closely related and correlate to science's concern with truth and philosophy's concern with concepts; contesting the causes of voluntary actions purported in Hart and Honoré's Causation and the Law; distinguishing two kinds of metaphysical tasks-—taxonomic and evaluative; and discussions of “what a thing is” in terms of its qualities and particulars and the distinction between numerical and conceptual differences, universals and individuation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

W.H. Capitan was associate professor of philosophy at Oberlin College.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Metaphysics and Explanation
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1966
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: As New