Metaphysics and Explanation - Softcover

Capitan; Merrill

 
9780822985839: Metaphysics and Explanation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822985837 ISBN 13: 9780822985839
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1966

Synopsis

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 \u201cnonsense\u201d 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 Honor\u00e9's Causation and the Law; distinguishing two kinds of metaphysical tasks-—taxonomic and evaluative; and discussions of \u201cwhat a thing is\u201d in terms of its qualities and particulars and the distinction between numerical and conceptual differences, universals and individuation.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date
1966
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822985837
ISBN 13 
9780822985839
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
112