Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.49.1(97).2
Mercier’s Concept of Philosophy
Dario Škarica
orcid.org/0000-0002-6788-2242
; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia; Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The backbone of this paper is a thorough analysis of Mercier’s concept of philosophy, in which the author gives a detailed presentation of Mercier’s critique of positivism, his understanding of the subject of philosophy, his doctrine of explanation, abstraction and integration, knowledge and science, and his definition of philosophy. The author singles out the following three positions of Mercier: particularism (when it comes to individual sciences and their mutual relations), explanatorism (when it comes to the relationship of metaphysics to particular sciences) and metatheoretical exclusivism (according to which the justification of scientific research procedures and methods is exclusively philosophical in nature). A significant part of this paper consists of the author’s critical considerations of those three positions of Mercier. Very briefly, in the introductory part of the paper, the author draws attention to Mercier’s considerable influence (both direct and indirect) on Croatian Neo-Scholasticism.
Keywords
Mercier, Louvain Neo-Scholasticism; metaphilosophy; explanation; metatheory; Croatian Neo-Scholasticism
Hrčak ID:
303515
URI
Publication date:
5.6.2023.
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