Experience and Beyond: The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics

By Jan Faye

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319310763
• ISBN13: 9783319310763
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"