I think most people think there is only one correct way of seeing reality. It certainly seems that way here on the forum. — Clarky
And ironically (or not) even those committed to perspectivism and the notion of there being no correct viewpoint - no totalizing metanarrative - seem to elevate this evaluative framework as somehow true, in itself a kind of totalizing metanarrative. — Tom Storm
Indeed. And ironically (or not) even those committed to perspectivism and the notion of there being no correct viewpoint - no totalizing metanarrative - seem to elevate this evaluative framework as somehow true, in itself a kind of totalizing metanarrative. — Tom Storm
That is exactly what I have tried to do with my Enformationism worldview. It's based on the sciences of Quantum physics and Information theory, but it requires a Metaphysical approach to make sense of this new way of viewing the "uncanny valley" (e.g. spooky action a distance) of quantum-scale reality.Perhaps, what is needed is more thorough metaphysics than in the past, or system builders with more synthetic understanding, in putting the many broken fragments of the past pictures together in a new way. — Jack Cummins
The idea of the elimination of metaphysics is one which I came across in the writing of Iris Murdoch. In her essay, 'A House of Theory' in the volume, ' Existentialism and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literarure.she explores the nature of such possible elimination. She says, 'In the past philosophers had invented concepts expressive of moral belief and presented them as if they were facts concerning the nature of the mind and the world.' She points to the way in the which criticism of metaphysics proceeded on the basis of the ideas of Hume, Kant and Hegel. — Jack Cummins
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There are many branches of metaphysics not just the one. Perhaps some metaphysics as a philosophy of mathematical fundamentals done by mathematicians might be illustrative. — magritte
Like pornography, I know it when I see it. — jgill
Entanglement itself is a physical, not a metaphysical, phenomenon. Metaphysics is how we look at things, not what we see. I have thought about what changes in metaphysics are required in order to deal with quantum mechanical phenomena. I don't know the answer. — Clarky
:fire:I do get to see the possibility that ethics precedes metaphysics, in that one's ethical commitment se[em] now to determine one's metaphysics. They were of course always... entangled. — Tobias
... how we look at (rationally conceive of) the totality of things ...Metaphysics is how we look at things, not what we see. — Clarky
:smirk:As I've said eleventy-seven times here on the forum, the best, most useful, way of seeing things is different depending on the situation. And that is absolutely true. — Clarky
In my case, (along with other thinkers) Murdoch & Foot really contributed to showing me my way out of the positivistic 'flybottle'.Murdoch and her intellectual sisters outright rejected the premise of this thread. For them metaphysics was indispensable for the fundamental task of philosophy - working out what one ought to do. They are at least as responsible as any others for evicting Ayer's pompous rejection of metaphysics from philosophy. — Banno
I am thinking how many see these writers, especially Kant, as being outdated philosophers of the past. — Jack Cummins
Hume, Kant and Hegel. — Jack Cummins
Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer — Jack Cummins
It does seem that Kant has become rather unpopular, — Jack Cummins
No one agrees on everything. Whoever is talking about getting rid of metaphysics is essentially talking about doing away with philosophy. — I like sushi
Hume's and Kant's attacks on metaphysics have probably been the most important in the history of philosophy. To embrace these philosophers is not to embrace metaphysics (or, when it comes to Hume, "system building"). — Jamal
Agreed. Philosophy is about expanding the limits of our understanding. Almost by definition, this coincides with metaphysics. The most interesting questions have always been metaphysical. — Pantagruel
'In the past philosophers had invented concepts expressive of moral belief and presented them as if they were facts concerning the nature of the mind and the world.' — Jack Cummins
f the known represents our best understanding of what is going on, metaphysics represents our attempts to go beyond the limits of that knowledge in ways that analyticity doesn't compass. Expanding our understanding of the physical universe isn't metaphysical, because the new understanding doesn't change the fundamental nature of that understanding (except that quantum theory - e.g. the Cophenhagen interpretation - could be said to be metaphysical in that sense). — Pantagruel
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