Sider on the epistemology of structure

• Autores: Jared Warren
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 173, Nº. 9, 2016, págs. 2417-2435
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Theodore Sider’s recent book, “Writing the Book of the World”, employs a primitive notion of metaphysical structure in order to make sense of substantive metaphysics. But Sider and others who employ metaphysical primitives face serious epistemological challenges. In the first section I develop a specific form of this challenge for Sider’s own proposed epistemology for structure; the second section develops a general reliability challenge for Sider’s theory; and the third and final section argues for the rejection of Siderean structure in the course of answering a transcendental argument against such rejection.