Metaphysics has been criticised as unscientific, speculative, and redundant. But any critic of metaphysics inevitably ends up making metaphysical claims of their own. Metaphysics is in fact inescapable – all of our thinking is underpinned by it, and those who ignore it simply espouse an unexamined and possibly faulty metaphysics, argues Robert Stern.
This is the seventh instalment in our series The Return of Metaphysics, in partnership with the Essentia Foundation.
Read the series' previous articles The Return of Metaphysics: Hegel vs Kant, The Return of Idealism: Hegel vs Russell, Derrida and the trouble with metaphysics, The Return of Metaphysics: Russell and Realism, After Metaphysics: Rorty and American Pragmatism, and Wittgenstein was a Metaphysician.
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