The cement of things .Petit deals with scientific metaphysics - Tiercelin

Name: The cement of things. A short treatise on scientific metaphysics.
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What do we know about reality? Little, if anything, if we are to believe the ambient idealism and relativism, which do not spare scientists. The Cement of Things shows that it is quite the opposite. Provided that conceptual analysis is used wisely and that empirical sciences are resorted to in a realistic and non-positivist spirit, our knowledge of what is - which it is still appropriate to call "metaphysics" - is legitimate and even indispensable. The book indicates the method to adopt and some avenues to pursue. Rejecting the classical representation of a contingent universe of atomized and passive substances, it supports the idea of a fundamentally dynamic reality of capacities, dispositions and causal interactions governed by laws, also closer to the image that the natural sciences send us today. Without being trapped by the illusions of a weightless metaphysics, but without giving in to the mirages of a metaphysics with scientific pretensions, this book defends the project of a realistic and rationalist scientific metaphysics; it strives to avoid the excesses to which both humility and arrogance lead and explores the conditions for a reasoned reconciliation between the philosophy of nature and the philosophy of the intellect.

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