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Metaphysics and Cognitive Science

Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin

Abstract

It is generally agreed that physical science can shed light on many issues in metaphysics. But it is not widely recognized that cognitive science can do this as well. It is trivial, of course, that cognitive science can illuminate the nature of mind. But here it is argued that cognitive science can even illuminate the existence or nonexistence of nonmental entities and their properties. Exactly how cognitive science can address these metaphysical issues is a central question tackled in this book. Among the specific topics approached from this perspective are time, morality, meaning, theism, bo ... More

Keywords: God, metaphysics, time, ethics, debunking, natural kinds, linguistics, bodily feeling

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2019 Print ISBN-13: 9780190639679
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2019 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190639679.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Alvin I. Goldman, editor
Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers University

Brian P. McLaughlin, editor
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Contributors

Introduction

Alvin I. Goldman and Brian P. McLaughlin

Part I What Might Be the Role of Cognitive Science in Metaphysics?

1 Time Lost, Time Regained

Craig Callender

2 Cognitive Science and Metaphysics

Jonathan Schaffer

Part II Ethics and Cognitive Science

3 Moral Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, and the Cognitive Sciences

Peter Railton

4 Debunking and Vindicating in Moral Psychology

Shaun Nichols

Part III God and Cognitive Science

5 On Perceiving God

Mark Baker and Dean Zimmerman

6 God and Cognitive Science

Alvin I. Goldman

Part IV Meaning, Linguistics, and Ontology

7 Cognitive Psychology and the Metaphysics of Meaning

Mark Johnston and Sarah-Jane Leslie

8 Natural Language and Its Ontology

Friederike Moltmann

Part V Modality and the Ontology of Bodily Feelings

9 Modal Prospection

John McCoy, L. A. Paul, and Tomer Ullman

10 Against Phenomenal Parsimony

Frédérique de Vignemont

Part VI Sortals and Natural Kinds

11 Does the Identity of an Object Depend on Its Category?

Lance J. Rips and Nick Leonard

12 What the Study of Psychological Essentialism May Reveal about the Natural World

Susan A. Gelman

Part VII Debunking and Cognitive Science

13 Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics

Daniel Z. Korman

14 Cognitive Science for the Revisionary Metaphysician

David Rose

15 Unbunking Arguments

Christopher Frugé

End Matter

Index