Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3403 g
ISBN: 978-1-137-32281-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
Many philosophers in the analytic tradition are now convinced that metaphysical questions are worth pursuing, but we still lack a convincing meta-metaphysics and methodology. This essay offers an account of how we should conduct our business qua metaphysicians.
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Introduction PART I: ON THE POSSIBILITY OF METAPHYSICS 1. A Return to Scholastic Metaphysics 2. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics 3. Evolutionary Biology meets Scholastic Metaphysics PART II: THE TURN TO BIOLOGY 4. Counting biological individuals 5. Evolutionary Biology, Change, and Essentialism 6. Evolutionary Biology, Modality and Explanation 7. Evolutionary Biology and Ethics