LEADER 03757nam 22005295 450 001 9910720074903321 005 20251008142022.0 010 $a9783031277771$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031277764 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-27777-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7245700 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7245700 035 $a(OCoLC)1378391984 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-27777-1 035 $a(CKB)26567673700041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926567673700041 100 $a20230503d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Burden of Proof upon Metaphysical Methods /$fby Conny Rhode 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Rhode, Conny The Burden of Proof upon Metaphysical Methods Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031277764 327 $a1. Dialogue and Persuasion -- 2. The Burden of Proof -- 3. Evidence, Inference and Empiricism -- 4. Philosophical Methods between Content and the World -- 5. Metaphysical Hypotheses -- 6. Escaping Dialogical Empiricism. 330 $aWho carries the burden of proof in analytic philosophical debates, and how can this burden be satisfied? As it turns out, the answer to this joint question yields a fundamental challenge to the very conduct of metaphysics in analytic philosophy. Empirical research presented in this book indicates that the vastly predominant goal pursued in analytic philosophical dialogues lies not in discovering truths or generating knowledge, but merely in prevailing over one?s opponents. Given this goal, the book examines how most effectively to allocate and discharge the burden of proof. It focuses on premises that must prudently be avoided because a burden of proof on them could never be satisfied, and in particular discusses unsupportable bridge premises across inference barriers, like Hume?s barrier between ?is? and ?ought?, or the barrier between the content of our talk or thought, and the world beyond such content. Employing this content/world barrier for a critical assessment of mainstream analytic philosophical methods, this book argues that we must prudently avoid invoking intuitions or other content of thought or talk in support of claims about the world beyond content, that is, metaphysically significant claims. Yet as content-located evidence is practically indispensable to metaphysical debates throughout analytic philosophy, from ethics to the philosophy of mathematics, this book reaches the startling conclusion that all such metaphysical debates must, prudently, be terminated. Conny Rhode?s research at the University of York focused on philosophical methodology and argumentation theory, beside forays into the philosophy of science, post-Kantian philosophy, and political and moral philosophy, often employing a feminist perspective. In light of the conclusion derived in this book, Rhode has left academic philosophy and now insists on appropriate evidence in accountancy instead. 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aMethodology 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aPhilosophical Methods 615 0$aMetaphysics. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aMethodology. 615 14$aMetaphysics. 615 24$aPhilosophical Methods. 676 $a110 700 $aRhode$b Conny$01355744 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910720074903321 996 $aThe Burden of Proof upon Metaphysical Methods$93359837 997 $aUNINA