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Never - theless, in terms of synthesis and unsurpassed virtuosity of expression, Bacon marks a turning point in the history of antimetaphysical thinking.

METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968

And in the nineteenth century Taine, who represented very much the antimetaphysical, positivistic school in

BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

Also, among the origins of the American prag - matists was an antimetaphysical “back to Kant” move - ment in a reaction to Hegel, stimulated by the rapid growth of the physical sciences and Darwin's evolu - tionary theory (Wiener [1949], pp. 2f.).

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

Early twentieth-century developments in logic and philosophy of science led away from Comte's positiv - ism and Mill's psychologism to the Viennese school of logical positivists with whom many pragmatists share an operational and antimetaphysical viewpoint.

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

It appears in Chauncey Wright's antimetaphysical attack on both the Hegelian absolutists and the

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

We are _antimetaphysical_ in this sense, while yet declaring ourselves _ultrametaphysical_, if by that word it be desired to claim and to affirm the function of philosophy as the autoconsciousness of the spirit, as opposed to the merely empirical and classificatory function of the natural sciences.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

In this largely antimetaphysical treatment of free will and determinism, Mark Balaguer argues that the philosophical problem of free will boils down to an open scientific question about the causal histories of certain kinds of neural events.

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He enumerates six such component ideas: (1) nominalism, (2) utilitari - anism, (3) positivism (antimetaphysical scientific method), (4) kantianism (emphasis on the “practical reason” of the free will), (5) voluntarism of a Schopen - hauerian sort (ontological priority of the will over science), (6) fideism or Pascalian apologetics aimed at restoring religious faiths.

PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968