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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格式: | 電子 Article |
語言: | English |
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[2018]
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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
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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. |
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ISSN: | 2169-2335 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2017.1402691 |