The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science

Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a...
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Author: Theodore Sider
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The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science by Sider, Theodore

The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science

€58,36

The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science

€58,36
Author: Theodore Sider
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical problems, and the same problems will look different when we change the lens. In this book, Theodore Sider identifies how the shift from modal to postmodal conceptual tools in recent years has affected the metaphysics of science and mathematics. He highlights, for instance, how the increased consideration of concepts of ground, essence, and fundamentality has transformed the debate over structuralism in many ways. Sider then examines three structuralist positions through a postmodal lens. First, nomic essentialism, which says that scientific properties are secondary and lawlike relationships among them are primary. Second, structuralism about individuals, a general position of which mathematical structuralism and structural realism are instances, which says that scientific and mathematical objects are secondary and the pattern
of relations among them is primary. And third, comparativism about quantities, which says that particular values of scientific quantities, such as having exactly 1000g mass, are secondary, and quantitative relations, such as being-twice-as-massive-as, are primary. Sider concludes these discussions by considering the meta-question of when theories are equivalent and how that impacts the debate over structuralism.


Author: Theodore Sider
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/08/2022
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.17w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780192864765

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