Carnap and Quine: Analyticity, Naturalism, and the Elimination of Metaphysics

Morris, Sean

doi:10.1093/monist/ony014

The Monist

2018

DOI: 10.1093/monist/ony014

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Carnap and Quine: Analyticity, Naturalism, and the Elimination of Metaphysics

Sean Morris¹

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“…See van Roojen (2018),Blackburn (2006), and Schroeder (2010, esp. Ch.2) for more on Moral Noncognitivism.7 For further contemporary discussions on the distinction between internal and external questions, as well as on the debate between Carnap and Quine on metaphysics seeBird (1995),Yablo (1998),Alspector-Kelly (2001),Eklund (2013),Verhaegh (2017),Verhaegh (2018),Morris (2018) andFlocke (2018). Blatti and Lapointe (2016) is a comprehensive collection of essays on Carnap's overall approach on ontology and metaphysics.…”

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A pragmatic approach to the ontology of models

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What are scientific models? Philosophers of science have been trying to answer this question during the last three decades by putting forward a number of different proposals. Some say that models are best understood as abstract Platonic objects or fictional entities akin to Sherlock Holmes, while others focus on their mathematical nature and see them as set theoretical structures. Although each account has its own strengths in offering various insights on the nature of models, several objections have been raised against these views which still remain unanswered, making the debate on the ontology of models seem unresolvable. The primary aim of this paper is to show that a large part of these difficulties stems from an inappropriate reading of the main question on the ontology of models as a purely metaphysical question. Building on Carnap, it is argued that the question of the ontology of scientific models is either (i) an internal theoretical question within an already accepted linguistic framework or (ii) an external practical question regarding the choice of the most appropriate form of language in order to describe and explain the practice of scientific modelling. The main implication of this view is that the question of the ontology of models becomes a means of probing other related questions regarding the overall practice of scientific modelling, such as questions on the capacity of models to provide knowledge and the relation of models with background theories.

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Would Carnap Have Tolerated Modern Metaphysics?

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It is well known that Carnap, early in his philosophical career, took most of metaphysics to consist of meaningless pseudostatements. In contrast to this meaning-theoretic critique of metaphysics, we develop what we take to be Carnap’s later value-based critique. We argue that this later critique is forceful against several central contemporary metaphysical debates, its origin in the principle of tolerance notwithstanding.

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Carnap and Quine: Analyticity, Naturalism, and the Elimination of Metaphysics

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