Science and Metaphysics - Random Thoughts regarding a Fruitful and Fraught Relationship torrent

Science and Metaphysics: Random Thoughts regarding a Fruitful and Fraught Relationship
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English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: N/A | EPUB | 1.3 MB

The set of essays you are about to read is focused on issues at the borderlands between science and metaphysics. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy canonized by Aristotle as distinct from physics (and the other sciences), in that it is concerned more with the logical structure of the world than with our empirical findings about it.

These days science and metaphysics are undergoing a somewhat more difficult relationship than in the time of Aristotle. On the one hand we have scientists like Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson (to name a few) who flat out reject all metaphysics as useless speculation. On the other hand there are metaphysicians within the so-called “analytic” tradition in philosophy who seem convinced that one can arrive at a rational view of the fundamentals of the world while gingerly ignoring science.