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    Grand systemic metaphysics of the Leibnizian sort could r... — Carmelics
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    Grand systemic metaphysics of the Leibnizian sort could return to favor and bear on the determinism debate

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    • 1.Philosophical fashions change at least twice a century
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    • 2.Systemic metaphysics has been influential before
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    • 1.Post-Quinean naturalism has structurally displaced aprioristic grand system-building as a legitimate methodology in analytic philosophy.
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    • 2.Leibnizian metaphysics requires commitment to pre-established harmony and sufficient reason, which are incompatible with modern physics' irreducible indeterminacy.
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    • 3.The institutional and pedagogical infrastructure of analytic philosophy actively selects against the training needed to produce or evaluate Leibnizian-style systems.
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    • 1.The argument from cyclical fashion commits the fallacy of appeal to historical precedent without identifying a causal mechanism driving the alleged return.
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    • 2.Logical positivism's critique of speculative metaphysics, though not universally accepted, permanently shifted the burden of proof against unfalsifiable grand systems.
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    Let us suppose that we shall never have the Final Theory of Everything before us—at least in our lifetime—and that we also remain unclear (on physical/experimental grounds) as to whether that Final Theory will be of a type that can or cannot be deterministic. Is there nothing left that could sway our belief toward or against determinism? There is, of course: metaphysical argument. Metaphysical arguments on this issue are not currently very popular. But philosophical fashions change at least twic
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