Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized

Every Thing Must Go Argues That The Only Kind Of Metaphysics That Can Contribute To Objective Knowledge Is One Based Specifically On Contemporary Science As It Really Is, And Not On Philosophers' A Priori Intuitions, Common Sense, Or Simplifications Of Science. In Addition To Showing How Recent Metaphysics Has Drifted Away From Connection With All Other Serious Scholarly Inquiry As A Result Of Not Heeding This Restriction, Ladyman And Ross Demonstrate How To Build A Metaphysics Compatible With Current Fundamental Physics ('ontic Structural Realism'), Which, When Combined With Their Metaphysics Of The Special Sciences ('rainforest Realism'), Can Be Used To Unify Physics With The Other Sciences Without Reducing These Sciences To Physics Itself. Taking Science Metaphysically Seriously, They Argue, Means That Metaphysicians Must Abandon The Picture Of The World As Composed Of Self-subsistent Individual Objects, And The Paradigm Of Causation As The Collision Of Such Objects.--book Jacket. In Defence Of Scientism / Don Ross, James Ladyman, And David Spurrett -- Scientific Realism, Constructive Empiricism, And Structuralism / James Ladyman And Don Ross -- Ontic Structural Realism And The Philosophy Of Physics / James Ladyman And Don Ross -- Rainforest Realism And The Unity Of Science / Don Ross, James Ladyman, And John Collier -- Causation In A Structural World / Don Ross, James Ladyman, And David Spurrett -- Conclusion : Philosophy Enough / Don Ross And James Ladyman. James Ladyman And Don Ross ; With David Spurrett And John Collier. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [311]-338) And Index.