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Really taking metaphysics seriously

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Barbara Montero
Barbara Montero*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Economics and Philosophy, The College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY10314http://barbara.antinomies.org
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barbara@antinomies.org
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Abstract:

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Ross & Spurrett (R&S) fail to take metaphysics seriously because they do not make a clear enough distinction between how we understand the world and what the world is really like. Although they show that the behavioral and cognitive sciences are genuinely explanatory, it is not clear that they have shown that these special sciences identify properties that are genuinely causal.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 632 - 633
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Notes

1. Melnyk (2003) argues for this point.