Analytic Metaphysics should not go

Authors

  • Andrea Strollo Scuola Normale Superiore

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v5i2.163

Keywords:

meta-metaphysics, naturalism, Philosophical Methodology,

Abstract

Recently, analytic metaphysics has been attacked from a scientist’s perspective. In Everything Must Go, James Ladyman and Don Ross argued that analytic metaphysics should be dismissed and replaced with a naturalized metaphysics. In this paper, I critically discuss the arguments proposed in the book in order to determine whether this critique of analytic metaphysics is successful. In particular, Ladyman and Ross elaborate on three main points: the role of intuitions and the ensuing misunderstanding of science, the demarcation of science from non science, and the exclusive theoretical authority of science. I argue that none of their arguments succeeds in excluding analytic metaphysics from the list of respectable theoretical disciplines.

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Published

2017-08-04

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017)

Section

Essays

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