Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics (Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell)

May 20 2020 | 01:16:50

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Show Notes

Dan's in-progress book, Prolegomena for a Pluralist Metaphysics ... Avoiding the "crazy positions" ... A stereoscopic view of the "scientific" and "manifest" images ... Dan: A world with people in it is only explainable in fragmentary terms ... Crispin sees the leading edge of the new dualism ... On the ontological status of coming-of-age stories ... Previewing future fights ...

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