No foundations for metaphysical coherentism
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- <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Recently, metaphysical coherentism has been propounded as an alternative to metaphysical foundationalism and infinitism. The view replaces the picture of reality as a hierarchy of levels with that of a network of objects or facts standing in symmetric or, more generally, cyclic relations of metaphysical dependence. This paper defends the orthodox picture of a well-founded hierarchy against the claimed superiority of coherentism. First, it will be argued that alleged theoretical advantages of coherentism do not hold up to scrutiny. Secondly, examples that are claimed to support coherentism are either misdescribed as involving metaphysical interdependence, or foundationalist treatments fare at least as good and often better than coherentist interpretations. Thirdly, a similar diagnosis applies to a recently proposed coherentist interpretation of quantum entanglement. The more general diagnosis is that claims of metaphysical dependence are convincing only if there is a detailed account of how one item metaphysically explains another. While foundationalists can resort to various specific explanatory relations, coherentism seems to be incapable of providing detailed explanations.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Ralf Busse
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11098-023-02055-w
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- 1573-0883
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- 0031-8116
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- Philosophical Studies
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- en
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- 2023
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- Published online
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- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02055-w
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- No foundations for metaphysical coherentism
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- Ralf Busse
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- Universitätsbibliothek Mainz
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- DFG-491381577-H
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- 10.1007/s11098-023-02055-w
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- 1573-0883
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- Philosophical studies
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- 100 Philosophie
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- eng
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- Open Access
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- 2023
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- https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9895
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- Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
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- 2024
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- 2024
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- No foundations for metaphysical coherentism
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