The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of ThingsCambridge University Press, 2012 - 668 pagina's This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. In its unusually wide range, A. W. Moore's study refutes the tired old cliché that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds. It also advances its own distinctive and compelling conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters. Moore explores how metaphysics can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Metaphysics in the Service of Science | 25 |
Metaphysics in the Service of Theodicy | 67 |
Metaphysics Committed to the Flames? 1 Empiricism and Scepticism in Hume 87 | 87 |
The Possibility Scope and Limits of Metaphysics | 107 |
Transcendentalism versus Naturalism | 143 |
TranscendentalismcumNaturalism or Absolute | 162 |
Hegels Recoil from Kants Transcendental Idealism | 164 |
Two Approaches to the Tractatus A Rapprochement? | 238 |
Transcendental Idealism in the Tractatus | 241 |
Metaphysics in the Service of Ethics | 248 |
Bringing Words Back from Their Metaphysical to Their Everyday Use | 255 |
Differences Between the Early Work and the Later Work | 257 |
Metaphysics Necessity and Grammar | 261 |
Transcendental Idealism in the Later Work? | 268 |
Distinguishing Between the Everyday and the Metaphysical | 271 |
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational | 167 |
Hegels Logic and the Absolute Idea | 169 |
Three Concerns | 174 |
Shades of Spinoza in Hegel? | 177 |
Contradiction Reason and Understanding | 182 |
Hegel Contra Kant Again Absolute Idealism | 187 |
The Implications for Metaphysics | 191 |
THE ANALYTIC TRADITION | 193 |
Sense Under Scrutiny | 195 |
Arithmetic as a Branch of Logic | 199 |
The Execution of the Project | 202 |
Sense and Bedeutung | 207 |
The Admissibility of Definitions | 209 |
The Objectivity of Sense The Domain of Logic | 211 |
Two Problems | 216 |
b The Property of Being a Horse | 217 |
The Implications for Metaphysics | 220 |
The Possibility Scope and Limits of Sense or Sense Senselessness and Nonsense | 222 |
Wittgensteins Conception of Philosophy | 223 |
The Vision of the Tractatus | 227 |
Logic Wittgenstein Contra Frege and Kant | 231 |
Anyone who understands me eventually recognizes my propositions as nonsensical | 235 |
Taking Words Away from Their Everyday to a Metaphysical Use? | 275 |
The Elimination of Metaphysics? | 279 |
Glances Ahead | 290 |
The Ne Plus Ultra of Naturalism | 302 |
Metaphysics in the Service of Philosophy | 329 |
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics | 345 |
Sense Under Scrutiny Again | 371 |
Metaphysics as Pure Creativity | 406 |
44 | 423 |
Making Sense of Making Sense or The Ne Plus Ultra | 429 |
Nature Human Nature and the Model of Human Nature | 438 |
Letting Being Be | 459 |
Metaphysics as History | 493 |
Metaphysics Deconstructed? | 512 |
Something Completely Different | 542 |
38 | 554 |
Conclusion | 581 |
b Dissent | 593 |
607 | |
Metaphysics in the Service of Ethics | 645 |
651 | |
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