TY - JOUR
T1 - Metaphysics as fairness
AU - Baron, Samuel
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.What are the rules of the metaphysical game? And how are the rules, whatever they are, to be justified? Above all, the rules should be fair. They should be rules that we metaphysicians would all accept, and thus should be justifiable to all rational persons engaged in metaphysical inquiry. Borrowing from Rawls’s conception of justice as fairness, I develop a model for determining and justifying the rules of metaphysics as a going concern.
AB - © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.What are the rules of the metaphysical game? And how are the rules, whatever they are, to be justified? Above all, the rules should be fair. They should be rules that we metaphysicians would all accept, and thus should be justifiable to all rational persons engaged in metaphysical inquiry. Borrowing from Rawls’s conception of justice as fairness, I develop a model for determining and justifying the rules of metaphysics as a going concern.
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-015-0842-x
DO - 10.1007/s11229-015-0842-x
M3 - Article
VL - 193
SP - 2237
EP - 2259
JO - Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science
JF - Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science
SN - 0039-7857
IS - 7
ER -