Book description
This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts,…
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1 author picked The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Moore’s book seems exemplary to me because it offers a broad historical picture of alternatives in modern philosophy, based on the simple idea that metaphysics is ‘the most general attempt to make sense of things’.
This connects philosophy to everyday experience, which relies precisely on how we make sense of things.
I like the fact that the book allows one to ask questions about the sense knowledge makes of the world, given that much of the sense we make actually comes through active participation in the world, for example in listening to or playing music, or, indeed, in doing philosophy…
From Andrew's list on why so much modern philosophy fails to make real sense of the world.
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