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The Metaphysics of Science and Aim-Oriented Empiricism

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 403)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04143-4

ISBN: 978-3-030-04142-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 10, 2019

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Chapter 1 Early Work on the Metaphysics of Science

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 3 –31

[The first phase of my work on the metaphysics of science resulted in an MA thesis that was completed in 1965, and three papers extracted from the thesis published in 1966 and 1968. These papers tackled the problem of how to reconcile the world as depicted by physics with the world of common...
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Chapter 2 Subsequent Work on Essentialism and the Mind-Body Problem

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 33 –79

[Two components of all that I argued for in my three papers of 1966 and 1968 had an immense impact on subsequent philosophy, not via my publications, but via subsequent publications of others. As a result, my work was ignored and forgotten. The outcome was that the overall theme of my three...
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Chapter 3 Aim-Oriented Empiricism: Exposition, and Implications for Science and the Philosophy of Science

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 83 –108

[In this chapter I outline the second wave of my work on the metaphysics of science. Physics only ever accepts unified theories. This means, I realized, that physics makes a big, influential, highly problematic metaphysical assumption about the nature of the universe: it has some kind of...
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Chapter 4 Aim-Oriented Empiricism and the Metaphysics of Science: 2000 to 2017

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 109 –170

[In this chapter I discuss in detail 31 works on the metaphysics of science by 28 authors published between the years 2000 and 2017. Just one of these authors refers to my earlier work on the metaphysics of science in four footnotes but otherwise ignores most of what I have to say. The other 27...
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Chapter 5 Broader Implications: Academic Inquiry for a Wiser World

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 173 –187

[In this final chapter I say something about what I take to be the broader implications and significance of aim-oriented empiricism: the urgent need to bring about a revolution in academic inquiry. The issues go back to the eighteenth century Enlightenment. The basic idea of the philosophes of...
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Appendix: Refutation of Kripke on Rigid Designators and Essentialism

Maxwell, Nicholas

Pages: 189 –208

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