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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Relationship Between Metaphysics and Physics
I think of myself as a metaphysician because ultimately the questions I'm interested in are about what kinds of things exist and what they're like. My understanding is that the name metaphysics got stuck just because it's the book Aristotle wrote after he wrote The Physics. So there have to be certain metaphysical ingredients in the world in order for science to proceed as it does at the rate of success that it does. And so science, the success of science is going to tell us something about these metaphysical posits.
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