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Every Thing Must Go
Metaphysics Naturalized
James Ladyman and Don Ross
with David Spurrett and John Collier
368 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-927619-6
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Hardback
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05 July 2007
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- Powerful critique of analytic metaphysics
- Bold, controversial thesis with far-reaching implications for key areas of philosophy
- Informed by the latest developments in physics and the special sciences
- Opens the door for further research in naturalistic metaphysics
Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build a metaphysics compatible with current fundamental physics ('ontic structural realism'), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ('rainforest realism'), can be used to unify
physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics itself. Taking science metaphysically seriously, Ladyman and Ross argue, means that metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subsistent individual objects, and the paradigm of causation as the collision of such objects.
Everything Must Go also assesses the role of information theory and complex systems theory in attempts to explain the relationship between the special sciences and physics, treading a middle road between the grand synthesis of thermodynamics and information, and eliminativism about information. The consequences of the author's metaphysical theory for central issues in the philosophy of science are explored, including the implications for the
realism vs. empiricism debate, the role of causation in scientific explanations, the nature of causation and laws, the status of abstract and virtual objects, and the objective reality of natural kinds.Readership: Professional philosophers and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of physics or philosophy of science
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James Ladyman, University of Bristol, and Don Ross, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Cape Town with David Spurrett and John Collier Contributors:
with David Spurrett
with John Collier
with David Spurrett
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"This material is dense, challenging and creative...a provovative book...the authors are to be commended for taking on the challenge to develop a systematic, scientifically informed metaphysics for the twenty-first century." - Paul W. Humphreys Metascience "This challenging and provocative book contends that contemporary fundamental physics carries radically counterintuitive consequences for metaphysics" - Jarrett Leplin, Philosophical Papers "an enticing work" - Jeremy Butterfield, Times Literary Supplement
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Preface
1: with David Spurrett: In Defence of Scientism
2: Scientific Realism, Constructive Empiricism and Structuralism
3: Ontic Structural Realism and the Philosophy of Physics
4: with John Collier: Rainforest Realism and the Unity of Science
5: with David Spurrett: Causation in a Structural World
6: Conclusion - Philosophy Enough
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