What is metaphysics and epistemology of a certain philosophy?
As in, for example, the Metaphysics of Realism and the Epistemology of Realism or the Metaphysics of Naturalism and the Epistemology of Naturalism, etc. etc. etc.
I honestly don’t get it. Could somebody _please_ explain this one to me?
Like if I was to talk about, for example, let’s say Pragmatism. What would I say under metaphysics and under epistemology? =/
Is there a difference between either one? And what exactly do they mean??
I’m so bloody confused! :[
Tags: certain, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy
March 5th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
metaphysics
Metaphysics investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. Cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics. It is concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world.[1] Someone who studies metaphysics would be called either a “metaphysician or a “metaphysicist”.
Metaphysics is that branch of philosophy,which deals with the investigation of principles of reality transcending those of any particular science.
The word derives from the Greek words μετά (metá) (meaning “beyond” or “after”) and φυσικά (physiká) (meaning “physical”), “physical” referring to those works on matter by Aristotle in antiquity. The prefix meta- (“beyond”) was attached to the chapters in Aristotle”s work that physically followed after the chapters on “physics”, in posthumously edited collections. Aristotle himself did not call these works Metaphysics. Aristotle called some of the subjects treated there “first philosophy”.
A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.
Before the development of modern science, scientific questions were addressed as a part of metaphysics known as “natural philosophy”; the term “science” itself meant “knowledge” of epistemological origin. The scientific method, however, made natural philosophy an empirical and experimental activity unlike the rest of philosophy, and by the end of the eighteenth century it had begun to be called “science” in order to distinguish it from philosophy. Thereafter, metaphysics became the philosophical enquiry of a non-empirical character into the nature of existence.
epistemology
Epistemology (from Greek ἐπιστήμη – episteme-, “knowledge, science” + λόγος, “logos”) or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge.[1] It addresses the questions:
What is knowledge?
How is knowledge acquired?
What do people know?
How do we know what we know?
Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth, belief, and justification. It also deals with the means of production of knowledge, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims.
The term was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808–1864).
March 5th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Metaphyics is usually taken to mean the ultimate questions about reality; those questions which deal with reality as it is in itself, or independent of our experiences. Epistemology is the theory of knowledge; what we know or can know, and how we know it.
So a philosophical position, if it aspires to be an “all round” comprehensive philosophy, like pragmatism, would have a position on those ultimate big metaphysical questions (free will, God, the nature of mind, etc); and also on what we know, what we can hope to know, and how we know it – its epistemology
March 5th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Metaphysics is about what things ARE. what is a man what is a book. what is a government.
Epistemology: how to we come to LEARN ABOUT those same things. How do we get infomormation about the things.
how do we interact with government.
It depends on what specifically you are tlaking about in school.
Metaphysics of Pragmatism would be to define WHAT the concepts or models you have learned ARE
the Epistemology of Pragmatism would be to discuss how we come to know about whether or not something is practical and what information we sense or learn to decide if something is practical.
oh the guy above me has an excellent point. you can also discuss the effects of your given philosophy on those fields. like what does pragmatism say about metaphysics. and what does epistemology.
and some advice for your slide show: keep its simple clear and use pictures on your slides. no one want to look at huge blocks of texts. practice the night before a couple of times alll that you will say. and say it out loud! make notes.
March 5th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
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March 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives. Nature Physics
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