Inductive Metaphysics : Insights, Challenges, and Prospects

• Autore: Hüttemann Andreas
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2025; ©2025
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Disciplina: 110
• Soggetto topico: Induction (Logic); Induction (Logic) - History
• Altri autori: SchurzGerhard
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction to the Contributions -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 Inductive Metaphysics in the History of Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy -- 1 Inductive Metaphysics - Reconstruction and Defence -- 2 Inductive Metaphysics in Contemporary Philosophy: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects -- 3 Inductive Metaphysics in the Context of Two Movements: Critical Realism and Logical Empiricism -- 4 Inductive Reasoning in Kant's Metaphysics of Nature -- Part 2 Inductive Metaphysics and the Method of Abduction -- 5 The Indefeasibility of Abduction -- 6 Logical Abductivism: Challenges and Prospects -- 7 Abduction in Philosophy of Mind -- Part 3 Ground, Explanation, and Data in the Context of Inductive Metaphysics -- 8 Inductive Metaphysics: Lessons for the Notion of Ground -- 9 Skepticism about Metaphysical Explanation -- 10 Data, Curve-Fitting, and Model-Building in the Metaphysics of Laws and Causation -- Part 4 Inductive Metaphysics and the Formation of Concepts -- 11 Naturalness and Concept Learning: Recent Progress and Prospects -- 12 Conceptual Re-Engineering for Inductive Metaphysicians -- Part 5 Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Physics -- 13 Simplicity as a Guide to Scientific Metaphysics: Insights from Physics -- 14 On Solving the Problem of the Direction of Time -- Part 6 Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences -- 15 Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences: Extrinsicality, Multi-Levelness, and Processuality -- 16 Metaphysics of Evolution and the Propensity Concept of Fitness -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Inductive Metaphysics justifies metaphysical principles by inductive or abductive inferences from empirical evidence, rather than by purely logico-conceptual considerations. This is the first volume to provide a representative picture of current research and debates in this branch of metaphysics.
• Titolo autorizzato: Inductive Metaphysics
• ISBN: 1-003-51440-5; 1-04-042983-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911020825403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series