Giuseppina D'Oro g.d'oro@keele.ac.uk
Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed
D'Oro
Authors
Abstract
Logical positivism famously dismissed metaphysics as meaningless. It failed to satisfy the verification criterion, according to which for any statement to be meaningful, it has to be able to be verified empirically. As positivists like A.J. Ayer argued, there are no facts that can verify metaphysical theories like idealism and realism, one way or another. This influential critique was responsible for the dismissal of metaphysics in analytic philosophy for decades. But instead of successfully burying metaphysics, logical positivism in fact ends up espousing a metaphysics of its own, argues Giussepina D’Oro. https://iai.tv/articles/why-the-attempt-to-bury-metaphysics-failed-auid-2277?_auid=2020&fbclid=IwAR216yhz-DpNbFeo-MkrsxFQD97fXx635i6pXdqcvU0RUJf7eOMd_SFBm0A
Citation
D'Oro. (2022). Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed
Acceptance Date | Oct 24, 2022 |
---|---|
Publication Date | Oct 24, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 25, 2024 |
Journal | IAI News |
Public URL | https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/424968 |
Publisher URL | https://iai.tv/articles/why-the-attempt-to-bury-metaphysics-failed-auid-2277?_auid=2020&fbclid=IwAR216yhz-DpNbFeo-MkrsxFQD97fXx635i6pXdqcvU0RUJf7eOMd_SFBm0A |
Files
WHY THE ATTEMPT TO BURY METAPHYSICS FAILED 24-10-2022.docx
(431 Kb)
Document
Publisher Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
You might also like
Imagination and Revision
(2021)
Book Chapter
Presupposti assoluti. Collingwood e l'autonomia delle scienze umane
(2021)
Book Chapter
Downloadable Citations
About Keele Repository
Administrator e-mail: research.openaccess@keele.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search