A proper metaphysics for cognitive performance.

The Role of Standpoints in Applied Metaphysics

Applied metaphysics, which contains the knowledge of objects a priori, makes a system out of pure reason, and that system of pure rational knowledge is called metaphysics in the strict sense. Transcendental philosophy is the propaedeutic of metaphysics proper. Reason determines nothing [in metaphysics proper] but rather speaks always of only its own ability, and in metaphysics proper it makes u...

Epistemology without Metaphysics

Goal: alternative to dipstick model. (a) to avoid dubious metaphysics (b) to restore epistemology to its proper role Examples: justification of induction justification of logic (c) to allow for a better account of change in fundamental norms. Focus today mostly on (a).

Naturalizing Metaphysics with the Help of Cognitive Science

A New Role for Experimental Work in Metaphysics

Recent work in philosophy could benefit from paying greater attention to empirical results from cognitive science involving judgments about the nature of our ordinary experience. This paper describes the way that experimental and theoretical results about the nature of ordinary judgments could—and should—inform certain sorts of enquiries in contemporary philosophy, using metaphysics as an exemp...

1 New roles for experimental work in metaphysics

Recent work in philosophy could benefit from paying greater attention to empirical results from cognitive science involving judgments about the nature of our ordinary experience. This paper describes the way that experimental and theoretical results about the nature of ordinary judgments could—and should—inform certain sorts of enquiries in contemporary philosophy, using metaphysics as an exemp...