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| العنوان: |
Metaphysical Explanations for Modal Normativists |
| المؤلفون: |
Theodore Locke |
| المصدر: |
Metaphysics, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: |
Ubiquity Press, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: |
2020 |
| المجموعة: |
LCC:Metaphysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
grounding, explanation, modality, essence, real definition, normativism, quasi-realism, metaphysical laws, Metaphysics, BD95-131 |
| الوصف: |
I expand 'modal normativism', a theory of metaphysical modality, to give a normativist account of 'metaphysical explanation'. According to modal normativism, basic modal claims do not have a descriptive function, but instead have the normative function of enabling language users to express semantic rules that govern the use of ordinary non-modal vocabulary. However, a worry for modal normativism is that it doesn’t keep up with all of the important and interesting metaphysics we can do by giving and evaluating metaphysical explanations. So, I advance modal normativism by arguing that metaphysical explanations also have a normative rather than descriptive function. In particular, non-causal explanatory claims have formal and semantic properties that make them expressively stricter than basic modal claims and so are better suited to express fine-grained aspects of semantic rules. A major payoff of my normativist account of metaphysical explanations is that it yields a plausible story about how we come to evaluate and know metaphysical explanations—we do this primarily by conceptual analysis. I also respond to a number of objections, including the objection that the epistemic payoffs of my view are not worth the metaphysical costs. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article |
| وصف الملف: |
electronic resource |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
2515-8279 |
| Relation: |
https://www.metaphysicsjournal.com/articles/35; https://doaj.org/toc/2515-8279 |
| DOI: |
10.5334/met.35 |
| URL الوصول: |
https://doaj.org/article/f17452f61b354f97822724f19f318a61 |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsdoj.f17452f61b354f97822724f19f318a61 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |