The team of the MetPhil project (Croatian Science Foundation IP-2022-10-2550) organized a visiting lecture held by Prof. dr. sc. Gerhard Schurz from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop was held on the 27.2.2025. The title of the visiting lecture was “Inductive Metaphysics and its Abductive Methodology”.
In this visiting lecture Gerhard Schurz tried to elaborate a new understanding of the methodology of metaphysics. We can situate this new understanding of metaphysics within the framework of what is called Inductive Metaphysics (IM). IM proposes an interesting framework for conducting metaphysical inquiry because it aims at an a posteriori justification of metaphysical claims. Such a justification is based on ampliative induction, in particular abductive inferences from empirical data.
The second part of the talk was dedicated to a Q&A session where the audience presented their questions and comments to the author.
The minutes of this workshop are attached below.
