Pragmatist Metaphysics: An Essay on the Ethical Grounds of Ontology

by Sami Pihlstr? and Sami Pihlström

Pragmatist Metaphysics proposes a pragmatist re-articulation of the nature, aims and methods of metaphysics. Rather than regarding metaphysics as a 'first philosophy', an inquiry into the world independent of human perspectives, the pragmatist views metaphysics as an inquiry into categorizations of reality laden with human practices. Insofar as our categorizations of reality are practice-laden, they are also, inevitably, value-laden.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847065937
• ISBN13: 9781847065933
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"