Titel:	Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
Beginn:	07.12.2017 10:30
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Beschreibung:	Beginn: 07.12.2017 10:00 Ende: 08.12.2017 17:45 The new research group, „Inductive Metaphysics. Articulation, Application and Challenges“, is hosted at the universities of Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Münster (Germany). It aims at developing a robust concept of Inductive Metaphysics (IM) and at defending it against objections. The term “Inductive Metaphysics” was introduced by German thinkers of the 19th century, among others Külpe and von Hartmann. IM assumes that inductive methods (abduction, inferences to the best explanation) and empirical premises should and do play a role in tackling many metaphysical issues. IM has to be delineated against naturalised metaphysics and the Canberra Plan on the one hand, and against aprioristic metaphysics on the other. We want to clarify which roles empirical sources of knowledge can play in metaphysics, which kinds of a posteriori methods can be justified in metaphysics, and which of these a posteriori elements can be found in the history of metaphysics as well as today. In this workshop we are particularly interested in the following three groups of questions: First, which role do empirical information and empirical methods play in contemporary metaphysics, what are they and how can they be justified in metaphysics? Second, what did the initiators of this concept in the 19th century think about Inductive Metaphysics? And third, how does 18th century metaphysics relate to empirical sources of knowledge and a posteriori forms of inference?​ Program Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 10:15 -- 11:15 Oliver R. Scholz: Das Programm der induktiven Metaphysik bei Erich Becher 11:45 -- 12:45 Michael Heidelberger: Fechners induktive Metaphysik -- ein gangbarer Weg? ​lunch break 14:15 -- 15:15 Gerhard Schurz: Abduction as a Method of Inductive Metaphysics 15:30 -- 16:30 Amanda Bryant: Ampliative Inference, Epistemic Trade-Offs, and Disciplinary Autonomy in Scientifically Responsible Metaphysics ​ 16:45 -- 17:45 Peter Simons: The Long and Winding Road: Empirical Feedback in Metaphysics ​ ​Friday, Dec. 8, 2017 10:15 -- 11:15 Ralf Busse: Against Metaphysical Structuralism. A Case Study in Isreal Potter' s Methodology 11:45 -- 12:45 Mary Domski: Newton on the Mathematical Certainty of Metaphysical Truths ​ lunch break 14:15 -- 15:15 Arnold Pelletier: Leibniz, the Inductive Challenge 15:30 -- 16:30 Kristina Engelhard: Inductive Metaphysics in Leibniz and Wolff? Organisation K. Engelhard, B. Falkenburg, S. Jaag, M. Schrenk, O. Scholz and G. Schurz
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Adresse:	Technische Universität Dortmund, Room EF50, R. 0.442 Emil Figge Str. 50 44227 Dortmund
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Adresse:	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Technische Universität Dortmund Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann
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