Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
By Roger Trigg
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Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning
beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities that are beyond its grasp. Because of this, metaphysics has often been contemptuously dismissed by scientists and philosophers who wish to remain within the bounds of what can be scientifically proven. Yet scientists at the frontiers of physics unwittingly engage in metaphysics, as they are now happy to contemplate whole universes that are, in principle, beyond human reach.
Roger Trigg challenges those who deny that science needs philosophical assumptions. In fact, Trigg claims that the foundations of science themselves have to lie beyond science. It takes reasoning apart from what can be experienced to discover what is not yet known, and this metaphysical reasoning to imagine realities beyond what can be accessed.
“In Beyond Matter, Roger Trigg advances a powerful, persuasive, fair-minded argument that the sciences require a philosophical, metaphysical foundation. This is a brilliant book for new-comers to philosophy of science and experts alike.” —Charles Taliaferro, professor of philosophy, St. Olaf College
Roger Trigg
Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of International Society for Science and Religion. His latest book is Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics (Templeton Press, 2015). He is also joint editor, with Justin Barrett, of The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion (Routledge, 2014).
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