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3097The Necessity of MetaphysicsDissertation, Durham University. 2008.The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that metaphysics is a necessary discipline -- necessary in the sense that all areas of philosophy, all areas of science, and in fact any type of rational activity at all would be impossible without a metaphysical background or metaphysical presuppositions. Because of the extremely strong nature of this claim, it is not possible to put forward a very simple argument, although I will attempt to construct one. A crucial issue here is what metaphysics in …Read more
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Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Physical Science |
Philosophy of Biology |