A peculiar enterprise: The fate of metaphysics in a naturalist climate

In this paper, I examine the divide between "analytic" and "continental" approaches to metaphysics by reconstructing a three-cornered debate between naturalists, hermeneutists, and pragmatists on the issue of how to understand the relationship between ethics and ontology. Taking...

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主要作者: Meijer, Michiel 1984- (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: [2018]
In: International journal of philosophy and theology
Year: 2018, 卷: 79, 發布: 1/2, Pages: 1-17
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Putnam, Hilary 1926-2016 / Taylor, Charles 1931- / 本体 (信息科学) / 倫理學 / 形而上學
IxTheo Classification:NCA Ethics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Putnam
B Ontology
B Pragmatism
B Taylor
B Metaphysics
B Hermeneutics
B Naturalism
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總結:In this paper, I examine the divide between "analytic" and "continental" approaches to metaphysics by reconstructing a three-cornered debate between naturalists, hermeneutists, and pragmatists on the issue of how to understand the relationship between ethics and ontology. Taking my cue from the dominant naturalistic debates in Anglo-American ethics, I continue to discuss in more detail the positions of Hilary Putnam and Charles Taylor in the light of these debates. More particularly, I investigate Putnam's wholesale rejection of (what he calls) Ontology with a capital "O", while also exploring Taylor's retrieval of ontological thinking for (what he calls) Ethics with a capital "E". Drawing attention to the deep metaphysical uncertainties in all of these approaches, I ultimately seek to develop a well-defined perspective from which to evaluate the peculiar status of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy, reflecting on its fate beyond the analytic-continental split.
ISSN:2169-2335
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2017.1402691