Making New Tools From the Toolbox of Metaphysics
@article{Arroyo2021MakingNT, title={Making New Tools From the Toolbox of Metaphysics}, author={Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo}, journal={Erkenntnis}, year={2021} }
In this review, I specify the metametaphysical background in which Alastair Wilson’s “The Nature of Contingency” (Oxford University Press, 2020) should be properly understood. Metaphysics, as a philosophical discipline, is standing on thin ice. The caricature of the situation is polarized, and is often presented as follows: metaphysics is either entirely extracted from science or it is entirely independent of science. There is a recent trend that focuses on the middle ground between these…
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