Gutenberg Open Science: No foundations for metaphysical coherentism

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dc.contributor.author	Busse, Ralf	-
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-16T09:27:09Z	-
dc.date.available	2024-01-16T09:27:09Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/9895	-
dc.description.abstract	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.	en_GB
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	100 Philosophy	en_GB
dc.title	No foundations for metaphysical coherentism	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9877	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie	de
jgu.organisation.number	7920	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	Philosophical studies	de
jgu.journal.volume	Version of Record (VoR)	de
jgu.publisher.year	2023	-
jgu.publisher.name	Springer Science + Business Media B.V.	de
jgu.publisher.place	Dordrecht u.a.	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1573-0883	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	100	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1007/s11098-023-02055-w	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485	-
jgu.subject.dfg	Lebenswissenschaften	de
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