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A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

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  1. Ulrich Steinvorth

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Explains why analytic philosophy must ?become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic

  • Argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man

  • Draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Why Naturalistic Metaphysics Is Needed

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    Pages 1-26

  3. The Ontology of Escalation

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    Pages 27-71

  4. Practical Conclusions

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    Pages 73-86

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 87-97
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About this book

In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic. Steinvorth argues that self-regulation is the common property of all being, that we can talk of an increase or escalation of self-regulation in the evolution of being, and that self-regulation becomes self-determination in man. Considering objections to this view related to questions of free will, consciousness, the naturalistic fallacy, and teleology, he draws on cybernetics, dual process theory, physical cosmology, and Leibniz’s (“demiurgic”) idea of measuring the goodness of a world by the number of possibilities opened up by the world. To test his approach and show its political relevance, he applies it to political liberalism.

 

  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Ulrich Steinvorth

About the author

Ulrich Steinvorth is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and lives in the United States. He has published numerous books and articles on political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics in German, English, and French, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan, China, and the USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Plea for Naturalistic Metaphysics

  • Book Subtitle: Why Analytic Metaphysics is Not Enough

  • Authors: Ulrich Steinvorth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72603-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72602-7Published: 13 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72603-4Published: 12 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 97

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology, Analytic Philosophy

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