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  1. The current state of the metaphysics of science debate.Cristian Soto - 2015 - Philosophica 90 (1).
    I examine the current state of the debate on the metaphysics of science. In 1, I identify some of the main questions belonging to the MS, looking into the relationship between science and metaphysics. In 2, I expound the rise of the old wave in the MS, which endorses the belief that metaphysics is a guide to, or a heuristic for, science and outlines the stronger idea that metaphysics makes science possible. In 3, I examine the maximalist MS. This is (...)
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  • Metaphysics, laws, and natural kinds: Minimalist approaches: Stephen Mumford and Matthew Tugby : Metaphysics and science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, vii+244pp, £40 HB.Cristian Soto - 2014 - Metascience 24 (2):321-331.
    Debates on the metaphysics of science have steadily gained momentum over the last decade or so. This appears to illustrate a case of philosophers’ realisation that metaphysics—and theoretical philosophy overall—largely depends upon the sciences and has a good deal to learn from them. Recent literature on this, in fact, has reached an unforeseen high level of refinement in the arguments and a very much desirable precision in the consequences that we can derive from examining the interplay currently undergoing between science (...)
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