This volume of new essays, written by leading philosophers of science, explores a broadly methodological question: what role should metaphysics play in our phil
Metaphysics and science have a long but troubled relationship. In the twentieth century the Logical Positivists argued metaphysics was irrelevant and that philo
Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural scie
Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning beyond the world we experience? How can we ensure that the physical world is suffici
Metaphysics is sensitive to the conceptual tools we choose to articulate metaphysical problems. Those tools are a lens through which we view metaphysical proble