Ideas of M Loux / D Zimmerman, by Theme

[American, fl. 2003, Professors at Notre Dame and Rutgers Universities]

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Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions
     Full Idea: The empiricist revival of metaphysics came with Quine, who focused on ontological commitments associated with accepting a body of discourse, and Strawson, asking about the presuppositions of our conceptual practices.
     From: M Loux / D Zimmerman (Intro to Oxford Hndbk of Metaphysics [2003])
     A reaction: I find myself preferring the British approach. I can discourse about things without ontological commitment, and utter truths about non-existent things. I really yearn, though, for the third way - actually reasoning towards knowing what's out there.