The evolution of modern metaphysics: making sense of things

Abstract

Preface Introduction Part I. The Early Modern Period: 1. Descartes: metaphysics in the service of science 2. Spinoza: metaphysics in the service of ethics 3. Leibniz: metaphysics in the service of theodicy 4. Hume: metaphysics committed to the flames? 5. Kant: the possibility, scope, and limits of metaphysics 6. Fichte: transcendentalism versus naturalism 7. Hegel: transcendentalism-cum-naturalism or, absolute idealism Part II. The Late Modern Period I: The Analytic Tradition: 8. Frege: sense under scrutiny 9. The early Wittgenstein: the possibility, scope, and limits of sense or, sense, senselessness, and nonsense 10. The later Wittgenstein: bringing words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use 11. Carnap: the elimination of metaphysics? 12. Quine: the ne plus ultra of naturalism 13. Lewis: metaphysics in the service of philosophy 14. Dummett: the logical basis of metaphysics Part III. The Late Modern Period II: Non-Analytic Traditions: 15. Nietzsche: sense under scrutiny again 16. Bergson: metaphysics as pure creativity 17. Husserl: making sense of making sense 18. Heidegger: letting being be 19. Collingwood: metaphysics as history 20. Derrida: metaphysics deconstructed? 21. Deleuze: something completely different Conclusion.

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