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Scientific ontology : integrating naturalized metaphysics and voluntarist epistemology / Anjan Chakravartty.

Author: Chakravartty, Anjan, author.

ImprintOxford, UK : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Descriptionxviii, 274 pages ; 22 cm.

Note:Part I. Naturalized Metaphysics -- Ontology: scientific and meta-scientific -- Science and metaphysics, then and now -- Naturalism and the grounding metaphor -- Part II. Illustrations and Morals -- Dispositions: science as a basis for scientific ontology -- Structures: science as a constraint on scientific ontology -- Part III. Voluntarist Epistemology -- Knowledge under ontological uncertainty -- The nature and provenance of epistemic stances -- Coda: ontology with lessons from Pyrrho and Sextus.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.



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Chakravartty, Anjan, author.
Series Statement
Oxford studies in philosophy Of science
Subject:
Ontology.
Science -- Philosophy.
Series Added Entry-Uniform title
Oxford studies in philosophy of science.