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investigating actual-world objects; they construct expensive equipment to perform their investigations. If the job could be done as well by consulting intuitions about imaginary examples, why bother with all this expensive equipment and labor-intensive experiments? Evidently, unless philosophers are either
that exists is fundamentally describable and explainable in the categories of the natural sciences. It is, however, a “stagnating and degenerative research program”; for this reason, it is appropriate to investigate the metaphysical rivals in earnest once again, namely dualism and idealism. This book
Kantian type does not require a strict dualism between animals and humans. It investigates the conditions of possibility of mental activities that humans are capable of, not whether chimpanzees or early hominids also possess these faculties. But it also does not rule this possibility out. The absence of
Imaginationsbegriff diffuser. Ein Bereich, in dem dies besonders auffällt, ist der Diskurs über wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse. Exemplarisch dafür werden zunächst einige Auszüge eines populärwissenschaftlichen Werks angeführt: John Beveridges The Art of Scientific Investigation . 278 Im Anschluss daran soll ein
, secondly, the superficial regularities to which we are accustomed come sufficiently close to providing maximal information. If we are disappointed with the results, we must investigate the issue more precisely, i.e., we must attempt to come closer to the actual regularities. The problem of modal force
The second task of an anti-naturalistic metaphysics, as mentioned previously, is to show that mental processes could be causally relevant in the domain of the physical without contradicting physical laws. Since free actions require undoubtedly mental effect, this question can be investigated in