anti-metaphysicalism

English

Noun

anti-metaphysicalism (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of antimetaphysicalism
   • 2008, David Wood, José Medina, Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions, →ISBN, page 345:

     Now it may seem as if this is pushing Rorty's anti-metaphysicalism too far.

   • 2013, Agustín Rayo, The Construction of Logical Space, →ISBN, page 25:

     Moral: If realism is the view that there is a definite, subject-independent fact of the matter about how the world is, then anti-metaphysicalism is no less of a realist position than metaphysicalism.

   • 2013, Michael Beaney, The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy, →ISBN, page lxvii:

     But the question is whether they are sufficient to establish physicalism as Carnap and Hempel understood it, namely, as anti-metaphysical Physicalism; and whether, if so, the anti-metaphysicalism of Physicalism is a better approach to the mind-body problem than Kim's preferred metaphysical physicalism.