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    It is not the case that Anti-systemic, anti-fundamentalist metaphysics could come to predominate and bear on the determinism debate

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    • 1.The history of philosophy shows that anti-systematic movements (Romanticism, pragmatism) have consistently been reabsorbed or marginalized by formal systematic frameworks.
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    • 2.Cartwright's 'dappled world' thesis presupposes a metaphysics of natural kinds that itself requires foundational commitments inconsistent with thoroughgoing anti-fundamentalism.
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    • 3.The determinism debate is structurally tied to physics, which has continuously moved toward unification and systematization, insulating it from anti-fundamentalist metaphysical fashions.
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    • 1.Predictions about which philosophical frameworks will 'come to predominate' lack the evidential basis required for substantive metaphysical claims, reducing this to sociological speculation.
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    • 2.Lewis's Humean supervenience program demonstrates that rigorous anti-Cartesian, fundamentalist metaphysics remains a live and productive research tradition with no signs of exhaustion.
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    • 1.Philosophical fashions change at least twice a century
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    • 2.Anti-fundamentalist metaphysics such as that propounded by Cartwright (1999) represents a serious alternative framework
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