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SUMMARY:Rethinking Metaphysics - Misdirections in Metaphysics 1: The Explanatory Conception of Metaphysics
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DESCRIPTION:<p>This is part 1 of a series of three lectures</p>\n<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>\n<p>Two approaches have dominated work in metaphysics since its post-positivist revival: an explanatory approach and a truthmaker approach. I will argue that both approaches rely on the unargued assumption that all discourse serves the same function. This assumption has taken metaphysics in misdirections\, leading to pseudo-problems and epistemological mysteries that have left metaphysics in a crisis.</p>\n<p>The &lsquo\;Explanatory&rsquo\; conception of metaphysics\, often traced to Quine\, presents metaphysics as (part of) an explanatory enterprise\, concerned with offering (part of) a best total explanatory theory. On this view\, the work of metaphysics is likened to the work of natural science. In this lecture\, I aim to diagnose where this approach has gone wrong: by relying on the assumption that all the noun terms we are concerned with in metaphysics serve an explanatory function.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Georg Brun:
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