Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Eubulides, Ian Rumfitt and E.J. Lowe

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

9414	Metaphysics is the mapping of possibilities [Lowe, by Mumford]

16414

Science needs metaphysics to weed out its presuppositions [Lowe, by Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

13917

Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

4194	Metaphysics is concerned with the fundamental structure of reality as a whole [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

8282	Only metaphysics can decide whether identity survives through change [Lowe]

16127

Metaphysics tells us what there could be, rather than what there is [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

4214	Maybe such concepts as causation, identity and existence are primitive and irreducible [Lowe]

13919

Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

18835

Logic doesn't have a metaphysical basis, but nor can logic give rise to the metaphysics [Rumfitt]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

4222	If all that exists is what is being measured, what about the people and instruments doing the measuring? [Lowe]