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Metaphysics and Explanation

Metaphysics and Explanation

Paperback

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0822985837
ISBN13: 9780822985839
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Mar 15 1966
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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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