Immodest and proud

In his ‘Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics’, Hofweber (Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 260–289, 2009a) puts forward arguments against positions in metaphysics that he describes as ‘immodest’; a position he identifies as defended by Jonathan Lowe. In this paper I reply to Hofwebe...

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Main Author: Tallant, Jonathan
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description In his ‘Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics’, Hofweber (Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 260–289, 2009a) puts forward arguments against positions in metaphysics that he describes as ‘immodest’; a position he identifies as defended by Jonathan Lowe. In this paper I reply to Hofweber’s arguments, offering a defence of immodest metaphysics of the type practiced by Lowe (The possibility of metaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998) inter alia.
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spelling nottingham-444372020-05-04T20:08:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44437/ Immodest and proud Tallant, Jonathan In his ‘Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics’, Hofweber (Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 260–289, 2009a) puts forward arguments against positions in metaphysics that he describes as ‘immodest’; a position he identifies as defended by Jonathan Lowe. In this paper I reply to Hofweber’s arguments, offering a defence of immodest metaphysics of the type practiced by Lowe (The possibility of metaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998) inter alia. Springer 2015-08 Article PeerReviewed Tallant, Jonathan (2015) Immodest and proud. Erkenntnis, 80 (4). pp. 853-868. ISSN 1572-8420 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x
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