Ontología científica: integración de metafísica naturalizada y epistem voluntario

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Scientific Ontology

by Anjan Chakravartty

Though science and philosophy take different approaches to ontology, metaphysical inferences are relevant to interpreting scientific work, and empirical investigations are relevant to philosophy. This book argues that there is no uniquely rational way to determine which domains of ontology are appropriate for belief, making room for choice in a transformative account of scientific ontology.

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Publisher Description

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something apart from philosophy, and others to metaphysics, conceived as something apart from science, for certain kinds of answers. This book contends that these sorts of deference are misconceived. A compelling account of ontology must appreciate the ways in which the sciences incorporate metaphysical assumptions and arguments. At the same time, it must pay careful attention to how observation, experience, and the empirical dimensions of science are related to what may be viewed as defensible philosophical theorizing about ontology. The promise of an effectively naturalized metaphysics is to encourage beliefs that are formed in ways that do justice to scientific theorizing, modeling, and experimentation. But even armed with such a view, there is no one, uniquely rational way to draw lines between domains of ontology that are suitable for belief, and ones in which it would be better to suspend belief instead. In crucial respects, ontology is in the eye of the beholder: it is informed by underlying commitments with implications for the limits of inquiry, which inevitably vary across rational inquirers. As result, the proper scope of ontology is subject to a striking form of voluntary choice, yielding a new and transformative conception of scientific ontology.

Author Biography

Anjan Chakravartty is the Appignani Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he works on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. He has taught previously at the Universities of Cambridge, Toronto, and Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Naturalized Metaphysics Chapter 1: Ontology: scientific and meta-scientific 1.1 Scientific and philosophical conceptions of ontology 1.2 Deflationary ontology: historicism; sociology; pragmatics 1.3 Ontological limits: empiricism; scientific realism; metaphysics 1.4 Do case studies of science settle ontological disputes? 1.5 Examples of the robustness of ontology under cases Chapter 2: Science and metaphysics, then and now 2.1 Ontology and the nature of metaphysical inference 2.2 Is modern science inherently metaphysical? 2.3 Epistemic stances regarding scientific ontology 2.4 Metaphysical inferences: lowercase 'm' versus capital 'M' 2.5 The (possible) autonomy of (some) metaphysics from science Chapter 3: Naturalism and the grounding metaphor 3.1 In hopes of a demarcation of scientific ontology 3.2 On conflating the a priori with that which is prior 3.3 How not to naturalize metaphysical inferences 3.4 Unpacking the metaphors: "grounding" and "distance" 3.5 On the distinction between theorizing and speculating Part II: Illustrations and Morals Chapter 4: Dispositions: science as a basis for scientific ontology 4.1 How dispositions manifest in the philosophy of science 4.2 Explanatory power I: unifying aspects of scientific realism 4.3 Explanatory power II: giving scientific explanations 4.4 Explanatory power III: consolidating scientific knowledge 4.5 Property identity and the actual power of explanatory power Chapter 5: Structures: science as a constraint on scientific ontology 5.1 Thinking about ontology in the domain of fundamental physics 5.2 Situating an ontological inquiry into subatomic "particles" 5.3 Structuralist interpretations of the metaphysics of particles 5.4 Reasoning about ontological bedrock: an unavoidable dilemma 5.5 Dissolving the dilemma: the variability of belief and suspension Part III: Voluntarist Epistemology Chapter 6: Knowledge under ontological uncertainty 6.1 Inconsistent ontologies and incompatible beliefs 6.2 Belief and ontological pluralism: perspectival knowledge? 6.3 A trilemma for perspectivism: irrelevant; unstable; incoherent 6.4 Two kinds of context-transcendent pluralism about ontology 6.5 Ontological explanation and contrastive what-questions Chapter 7: The nature and provenance of epistemic stances 7.1 An indefeasible persistence of ontological disagreement 7.2 Stances revisited: deflationary; empiricist; metaphysical 7.3 A voluntarist primer on choosing stances and beliefs 7.4 Epistemic stances in conflict: rationality and robustness 7.5 In defense of permissive norms of rationality for stances Chapter 8: Coda: voluntarism with lessons from Pyrrho and Sextus 8.1 Getting to the bottom of it all, while awake 8.2 Skeptical arguments: some Modes of Agrippa 8.3 A Pyrrhonian analogy: isostheneia and aphasia 8.4 Extending analogy a bit further: ataraxia 8.5 A transformative epistemology of scientific ontology Bibliography Index

Review

Chakravartty's book is a delight. His combination of realism in metaphysics and voluntarism in epistemology gives him a uniquely insightful approach to all the issues concerning scientific realism and what Chakravartty calls its unavoidable dilemmas. I regard this as required reading for anyone intent on continuing the debate. * Bas van Fraassen, Princeton University and San Francisco State University *
This is a richly rewarding work, peppered from the get-go with thought-provoking observations, philosophical insights of all sorts, and a wealth of apt examples drawn from across the scientific spectrum. As such, it should be a centrepiece of the continuing debate on what we should ultimately aspire to in metaphysics. * Kerry McKenzie, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science *
A smart, historically informed, highly readable-and commendably nontechnical-defense of 'natural ontology', according to which science and metaphysics are inextricably intertwined. The book will be of interest to historians and philosophers of science, and to anyone who has wondered about the place of metaphysics in a world in which science has come to be the measure of all things. * John Heil, Washington University St. Louis and Monash University *

Long Description

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something apart from philosophy, and others to metaphysics, conceived as something apart from science, for certain kinds of answers. This book contends that these sorts of deferenceare misconceived. A compelling account of ontology must appreciate the ways in which the sciences incorporate metaphysical assumptions and arguments. At the same time, it must pay careful attention to how observation, experience, and the empirical dimensions of science are related to what may beviewed as defensible philosophical theorizing about ontology. The promise of an effectively naturalized metaphysics is to encourage beliefs that are formed in ways that do justice to scientific theorizing, modeling, and experimentation. But even armed with such a view, there is no one, uniquely rational way to draw lines between domains of ontology that are suitable for belief, and ones in which it would be better to suspend belief instead. In crucial respects, ontology is in the eye of thebeholder: it is informed by underlying commitments with implications for the limits of inquiry, which inevitably vary across rational inquirers. As result, the proper scope of ontology is subject to a striking form of voluntary choice, yielding a new and transformative conception of scientificontology.

Review Quote

Chakravartty's book is a delight. His combination of realism in metaphysics and voluntarism in epistemology gives him a uniquely insightful approach to all the issues concerning scientific realism and what Chakravartty calls its unavoidable dilemmas. I regard this as required reading for anyone intent on continuing the debate.

Details ISBN0197510256 Author Anjan Chakravartty Short Title SCIENTIFIC ONTOLOGY Pages 296 Language English ISBN-10 0197510256 ISBN-13 9780197510254 Format Paperback DEWEY 501 Illustrations Yes Year 2020 Publication Date 2020-04-09 Subtitle Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology UK Release Date 2020-04-09 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-04-09 NZ Release Date 2020-04-09 US Release Date 2020-04-09 Edited by Xiao Zhou Toole Birth 1929 Affiliation Barrister, Littleton Chambers Position Senior Medical Director for Education and Policy Qualifications MD, FACP, FAAHPM Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780190651459 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science

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