Abstract
Many think a respectable metaphysics ought to be in some way continuous with science. This paper identifies three broad and overlapping ways this idea has been developed: first, that science and metaphysics are methodologically continuous; second, that metaphysics is an attempt to synthesise scientific and non‐scientific knowledge; and, third, that metaphysics is the project of interpreting our best scientific theories. The paper argues that all three projects, understood as attempts to uncover the truth, fail. It ends by sketching some alternative ways to think of metaphysical theorising once it is liberated from the goal of truth.
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