Appropriating Hegel (Scots philosophical monographs) [Hardcover]

Crawford Elder (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 116 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd (November 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0080257291
• ISBN-13: 978-0080257297
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,285,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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My current research interests center on defending the mind-independent reality of whatever is needed to make sense of scientific practice and the cognitive successes scored by ordinary people using common sense. The working hypothesis is that this includes at least some familiar medium-sized objects. So relevant topics include essential properties and natural kinds; properties and natural laws; composition and vagueness. Connected topics are externalism in philosophy of mind, and static versus dynamic conceptions of time.

My first few papers explored contributions Hegel has to make to metaphysics. My idea at the time was that Hegel was a realist, and offered a far richer realism than anyone else. I then decided that Hegel's teachings on how our various concepts connect up with one another don't eo ipso tell us anything about how the world is. I started doing Hegel-free metaphysics. Life has its cycles, however, and in my just-published book I return to doing (slightly) Hegelian metaphysics.