{"product_id":"metaphysics-and-explanation-9780822985839","title":"Metaphysics and Explanation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): W. Capitan | D. D. Merrill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Metaphysics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers an unusual variety of topics presented during the fifth annual Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy. Essays topics include: a dispute of the standard deductivist account of scientific testability; two definitions of \\u201cnonsense\\u201d that are closely related and correlate to science's concern with truth and philosophy's concern with concepts; contesting the causes of voluntary actions purported in Hart and Honor\\u00e9's Causation and the Law; distinguishing two kinds of metaphysical tasks---taxonomic and evaluative; and discussions of \\u201cwhat a thing is\\u201d in terms of its qualities and particulars and the distinction between numerical and conceptual differences, universals and individuation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47813717950615,"sku":"9780822985839","price":4501.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822985839.webp?v=1778337874","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/metaphysics-and-explanation-9780822985839","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}