Introduction: The Originality of Agazzi in the Context of Contemporary Philosophy
Among the many aspects which make the position of Evandro Agazzi so original and almost unique in the context of contemporary philosophy,1 the most relevant one is very likely the fact of his being a philosopher of science who defends the
1For a complete and systematic synthesis of Agazzi’s philosophy, including also his metaphysics, see his recent Scientific objectivity and its contexts (Agazzi 2014), which unfortunately was published too late to be taken in consideration here.
For a shorter synthesis see Musso (2004, Chap. 11). [152] possibility of a metaphysics of “classical” kind, i.e. cognitive and taken not as a mere reflection about the most general aspects of physical reality, but also about the suprasensible: as is well known, indeed, and as Agazzi himself has written in the first line of his first article explicitly devoted to the problem of metaphysics, «a substantial part of contemporary philosophy qualifies itself as antimetaphysical» (Agazzi 1975: 4). But this is not all: while today the (few) supporters of metaphysics usually see science as something tendentially hostile or, at best, irrelevant, on the contrary in Agazzi metaphysics is never opposed to science, nor is merely juxtaposed to his epistemological reflection, but arises from its inside, and it is strictly related to it, in what we could call a relationship “of positive feed-back”, where they help, reinforce and complete each other. The best proof is that the essential elements of his metaphysics had already been sketched by Agazzi long before than he started to explicitly focus his reflection on it, in the context of works apparently devoted to “pure” philosophy of science and even formal logic.2
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