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Faye, Jan

 
9783319310763: Experience and Beyond: The Outline of a Darwinian Metaphysics

Synopsis

On Evolutionary Naturalism

Contents

Preface

1 Evolutionary Naturalism

The manifest image

The scientific image

Kant's metaphysical dualism

Evolutionary epistemology

2 Evolution and Human Cognition

The 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-ladenness

Instrumental 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 Reification

Common 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-time

Kant on space and time

The existence of space

The existence of time

Space-time substantivalism &n

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À propos de l'auteur

Jan Faye teaches epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published extensively within these areas in Danish as well as English. Some of his latest books include After Postmodernism (2012) and The Nature of Scientific Thinking (2014).

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