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Experience and Beyond: The Outline of a Darwinian Metaphysics
Paperback
ISBN13: 9783319809571
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 16 2018
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
On Evolutionary Naturalism
Contents
Preface
1 Evolutionary Naturalism
The manifest image
The scientific image
Kant's metaphysical dualism
Evolutionary epistemology
2 Evolution and Human CognitionThe Darwinian legacy
Setting the legacy straight
A fallacy of naturalization
Intention and innate dispositions
3 Sensation, Perception, and Observation
Perception as belief acquisition
From perception to observation
Theory-ladennessInstrumental observation
Observability
4 Theory and Reality
Forms of realism
Conceptual frameworks and external commitments
Scientific realism
The success argument
Constructive empiricism
Structural realism
The failure of representationalism
5 Truth, Language, and Objectivity
What is truth?
Truth and meaning
Non-realism concerning Truth
A naturalized notion of truth
Semantics and ontology
6 Abstraction and ReificationCommon sense and externality
What makes an entity abstract?
Abstract objects and abstracted concepts
Why did abstracted concepts evolve?
7 In Defence of Nominalism
Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars
Universals or particulars
Conceptualism
8 Space, Time, and Space-timeKant on space and time
The existence of space
The existence of time
Space-time substantivalism &n
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