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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: New Essays
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: New Essays Hardcover - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Matthew Slater (Editor); Zanja Yudell (Editor)


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The question of the proper role of metaphysics in philosophy of science is both significant and contentious. The last few decades have seen considerable engagement with philosophical projects aptly described as "the metaphysics of science: " inquiries into natural laws and properties, natural kinds, causal relations, and dispositions. At the same time, many metaphysicians have begun moving in the direction of more scientifically-informed ("scientistic" or "naturalistic") metaphysics. And yet many philosophers of science retain a deep suspicion about the significance of metaphysical investigations into science. This volume of new essays explores a broadly methodological question: what role should metaphysics play in our philosophizing about science? These new essays, written by leading philosophers of science, address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and by more general methodological inquiry.

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  • Title Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: New Essays
  • Author Matthew Slater (Editor); Zanja Yudell (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
  • Date 2017-03-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780199363209 / 019936320X
  • Weight 3.45 lbs (1.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (25.40 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Metaphysics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016029883
  • Dewey Decimal Code 501

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About the author

Matthew Slater is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University, having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Are Species Real? (Palgrave, 2013) and has co-edited such volumes as Carving Nature at its Joints, The Environment, and Reference and Referring (MIT Press) and writes on issues in the philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Zanja Yudell is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University at Chico, having received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He works on topics in the philosophy of science, especially laws of nature and explanation.

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