Inductive Metaphysics : Insights, Challenges, and Prospects (Hardcover)

Introduction to the Contributions? List of Contributors??Part 1: Inductive Metaphysics in the History of Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy??1. Inductive Metaphysics: Historical Reconstruction and Defense against its Critics? 2. Inductive Metaphysics in Contemporary Philosophy: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects? 3. Inductive Metaphysics in the Context of Two Movements: Critical Realism and Logical Empiricism? 4. Inductive Reasoning in Kant’s Metaphysics of Nature??Part 2: Inductive Metaphysics and the Method of Abduction??5. Why Abduction, not Deduction, is Indefeasible? 6. Logical Abductivism: Challenges and Prospects? 7. Abduction in Philosophy of Mind??Part 3: Ground, Explanation and Data in the Context of Inductive Metaphysics??8. Inductive Metaphysics: Lessons for the Notion of Ground? 9. Skepticism about Metaphysical Explanation? 10. Data, Curve-Fitting, and Model-Building in the Metaphysics of Laws and Causation??Part 4: Inductive Metaphysics and the Formation of Concepts??11. Naturalness and Concept Learning: Recent Progress and Prospects? 12. Conceptual Re-Engineering for Inductive Metaphysicians??Part 5: Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of Physics??13. Simplicity as a Guide to Scientific Metaphysics? 14. On Solving the Problem of the Direction of Time??Part 6: Inductive Metaphysics in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences??15. Causal Bases of Potentialities in the Life Sciences: Extrinsicality, Multi-levelness, and Processuality? 16. Metaphysics of Evolution and the Propensity Concept of Fitness