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We live in a metaphysical age. And I do not mean just that too many people still believe The Prophecies of Nostradamus and/or the horoscopes found in most local newspapers. It is a metaphysical age among philosophers -even among those who shun horoscopes and are frankly embarrassed to fi nd Nostradamus so prominently displayed in the metaphysics section of their campus bookstore. Nowadays, distinguished philosophers in prestigious departments proudly call themselves metaphysicians. They all know, of course, that Carnap and his Viennese friends campaigned in the late twenties and early thirties against metaphysics. These distinguished current philosophers and most of our professional contemporaries fi nd this complete rejection of metaphysics baffl ing and misguided at best. They cannot imagine what Carnap was doing, and they doubt that it is worth the fi nding out. When they refl ect that Carnap said that metaphysics was utterly without cognitive content, that it actually made no claims at all, they fi nd this so outrageous as to be not to be worth considering. I have no intention of trying to convince anyone that Carnap was correct in any of this. I am not sure that 'correct' is t

Author

Richard Creath

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Springer e-books : Imprint : Springer : Springer e-books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319018997

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History