Metaphysics and the Disunity of Scientific Knowledge

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The primary concern of this book is to show how a metaphysics can be developed, constrained by empiricist concerns for experience, mediated by the senses, which allows us to make sense of our situation as knowers who must make do in a world of uncertainty. The author argues for treating the possibility of metaphysical disorder seriously by showing how the ideas of contemporary disunifiers can be located in a broader philosophical context, and related to the history of modern western philosophy. The topics of causation and idealization are brought together to form the groundwork of an antifundamentalist philosophy that has much in common with the views of Otto Neurath. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.