Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Immanuel Kant, Stuart Glennan and Willard Quine
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant]
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Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]
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Quinean metaphysics just lists the beings, which is a domain with no internal structure [Schaffer,J on Quine]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
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Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
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Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
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You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
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The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
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Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
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Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
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Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]
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Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine]
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Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory [Quine, by Mautner]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
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Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
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Metaphysics goes beyond the empirical, so doesn't need examples [Kant]
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A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
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Metaphysics is just a priori universal principles of physics [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Enquiry needs a conceptual scheme, so we should retain the best available [Quine]
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We aren't stuck with our native conceptual scheme; we can gradually change it [Quine]
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For any subject, its system of non-experiential concepts needs a metaphysics [Kant]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
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