Immodest and proud

Tallant, Jonathan

Abstract

In his ‘Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics’, Hofweber (Metametaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 260–289, 2009a) puts forward arguments against positions in metaphysics that he describes as ‘immodest’; a position he identifies as defended by Jonathan Lowe. In this paper I reply to Hofweber’s arguments, offering a defence of immodest metaphysics of the type practiced by Lowe (The possibility of metaphysics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998) inter alia.

Citation

Tallant, J. (2015). Immodest and proud. Erkenntnis, 80(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 20, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Sep 20, 2014
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2017
• Journal: Erkenntnis
• Print ISSN: 0165-0106
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-8420
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/982926
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x
• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9678-x
• Contract Date: Jul 27, 2017