ID - 144099699 TI - The evolution of modern metaphysics : making sense of things PY - 2011 SN - 9780521616553 9781139029223 1139029223 9781139206228 1139206222 9781139204644 1139204645 9780521851114 0521851114 0521616557 1107225728 1139199560 1139201824 113920324X 1139205420 1280568364 9786613597960 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Metaphysics KW - Metaphysics. KW - Metaphysik. KW - Philosophy, Modern. KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - History KW - Métaphysique KW - Philosophie moderne KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144099699 AB - 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, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. In its unusually wide range, A. W. Moore's study refutes the tired old cliché that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds. It also advances its own distinctive and compelling conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters. Moore explores how metaphysics can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new. ER -