A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

Ulrich Steinvorth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

V, 97 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-72602-7 (ISBN)

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In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz's ("demiurgic") idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism.

Ulrich Steinvorth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and lives in the United States. He has published numerous books and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics in German, English and French, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan, China and the USA.

Chapter 1: Why Naturalistic Metaphysics is Needed.- Chapter 2: The Ontology of Escalation. - Chapter 3: Practical Conclusions.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	V, 97 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	267 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Carnap • David Lewis • leibniz • quine • Wittgenstein
ISBN-10	3-030-72602-9 / 3030726029
ISBN-13	978-3-030-72602-7 / 9783030726027
Zustand	Neuware