مورد إلكتروني
The Evolutionary Argument Against A Priori Metaphysics
| العنوان: | The Evolutionary Argument Against A Priori Metaphysics |
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| المؤلفون: | Roder, K. de |
| بيانات النشر: | Utrecht University 2017 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Mulder, J.M. (Thesis Advisor) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | This paper will set out to give a skeptical argument against the appeal to intuitions as a justificatory means for metaphysical beliefs. First, I will give a short description regarding the current state of the philosophical debate surrounding the nature of intuitions. Second, I will describe how intuitions are used by two different philosophical traditions: the naturalist tradition and the rationalist tradition. I will argue that the a priori methods employed by the rationalist tradition are irreconcilable with the findings and current paradigm of cognitive science. Evolutionary psychology (EP) tells us that our intuitions are mechanisms that helped our ancestors survive in a specific environment. It teaches us that the categories into which we divide the world are the product of natural selection. This conclusion has radical consequences for philosophy. Intuitions might be helpful tools for survival and pattern recognition, but they are deceptive when ontological questions are considered. Consequently, metaphysicians cannot rely on a priorism in their ontological inquiry. Third, I will address several points of criticism – surrounding circularity, reductionism, and physicalism – while outlining an approach to these criticisms that is influenced by the pragmatism of Rudolf Carnap, W.V.O. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Bachelor Thesis, Student Thesis |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content CC-BY-NC-ND Open Access |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| أرقام أخرى: | QGJ oai:studenttheses.uu.nl:20.500.12932/26845 https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/26845 1362661218 |
| المصدر المساهم: | UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1362661218 |
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