10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESCRIPTIVE METAPHYSICS»
Discover the use of
descriptive metaphysics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
descriptive metaphysics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Metaphysical Investigations
Perhaps the outstanding recent example of the Kantian influence on philosophy
and of what I have termed a subjective approach to metaphysics is Professor
Strawson's Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. Strawson contrasts
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2
Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social Sciences
"Descriptive metaphysics," he writes, "is content to describe the actual structure of
our thought about the world; revisionary metaphysics is concerned to produce a
better structure" (Strawson 1959, p. 9). What Strawson calls "the structure of our ...
3
Advaita Epistemology and
Metaphysics: An Outline of Indian ...
It seems only fair to take it for granted that Indian metaphysics can, among other
things, be called descriptive metaphysics. We saw in the Introduction that
soteriological imperatives also drive some schools to provide a 'revisionary' ...
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, 2013
4
Categories of Being: Essays on
Metaphysics and Logic
Finally, descriptive metaphysics contrasts with a philosophical project Strawson
has called “explanatory.” It explains “not just how our concepts and types of
discourse operate, but why it is that we have such concepts and types of
discourse as ...
Leila Haaparanta, Heikki J. Koskinen, 2012
5
The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
Hare, The Language of Morals descriptive metaphysics Metaphysics A term
introduced by P. F. Strawson in Individuals, in contrast to revisionary metaphysics
. Descriptive metaphysics aims to describe the most general features of our ...
Nicholas Bunnin, Jiyuan Yu, 2008
6
The Philosophy of P.F. Strawson
In that case, the difference between descriptive metaphysics and revisionary
metaphysics starts getting blurred. If revision- ary metaphysics is said to be
engaged, as stated by Straw- son, in producing a better structure of our thought
about the ...
Pranab Kumar Sen, Roop Rekha Verma, 1995
7
Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary
Metaphysics
Revisionary metaphysics is at the service of descriptive metaphysics. (Strawson
1959, p. 9) This passage suggests that Strawson views revisionary metaphysics
as viable, but only alongside and against the background of descriptive ...
8
Worldviews, Science and Us: Studies of Analytical ...
If, for instance, we find that the way our best science describes the world has
earned it a special status among our many and various conceptual schemes, the
result may be a descriptive metaphysics that is, according to (say) our everyday ...
Robrecht Vanderbeeken, 2010
9
The Ultimate Constituents of the Material World: In Search ...
Without much further justification and discussion Strawson then proceeds to
present his own contribution to the corpus of descriptive metaphysics. One part of
his investigation are detailed studies about how we conceive of everyday “things”
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10
Intuitions as Evidence
This book is concerned with the role of intuitions in the justification of philosophical theory.
