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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic nature or most fundamental structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study...

Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops...

study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. As one of the most fundamental...

Look up metaphysics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the fundamental nature of being and the world...

self-cultivation. Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and how to acquire it. Ethics...

In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785; German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten; also known as the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Grounding...

The Metaphysics of Morals (German: Die Metaphysik der Sitten) is a 1797 work of political and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is also Kant's last...

In philosophy, metaphysical necessity, sometimes called broad logical necessity, is one of many different kinds of necessity, which sits between logical...

Metaphysical grounding is a relation of metaphysical dependence that aims to capture how certain facts or entities obtain “in virtue of” others. It is...

Doctor of Metaphysics, also called a Metaphysical Science Doctorate, is a purported academic degree. While mainstream universities teach metaphysics as a branch...

Metaphysical libertarianism is the philosophical view that free will exists, that it is incompatible with determinism, and therefore that determinism is...

influence on Western philosophy extends across a wide range of topics—from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, to philosophy...

Modal metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that investigates the metaphysics underlying statements about what is possible or necessary. These include...

The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised...

branches of philosophy, including ethics, value theory, epistemology, and metaphysics. Nihilism is also described as a broad cultural phenomenon or historical...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to metaphysics: Metaphysics – traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the...

The history of metaphysics examines how theories about the most general features of reality ("metaphysics") have developed throughout history. Cognitive...

Thomas Carlyle, who contrasted dynamism with mechanism. Dynamism is the metaphysics of Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) that reconciles hylomorphic substance...

Introduction to Metaphysics may refer to: Introduction to Metaphysics "Introduction to Metaphysics" (essay), a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson Introduction...

The Metaphysical Club was a name attributed by the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, in an unpublished paper over thirty years after its foundation,...

In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal...

Aristotle 1999, p. 111. Metaphysics, pp. VIII 1043a 10–30. Lloyd 1968, pp. 43–47. Metaphysics, p. IX 1050a 5–10. Metaphysics, p. VIII 1045a–b. Wildberg...

The Discourse on Metaphysics (French: Discours de métaphysique, 1686) is a short treatise by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in which he develops a philosophy...

Metaphysical naturalism (also called ontological naturalism, philosophical naturalism, or antisupernaturalism) is a philosophical worldview that holds...

others, led a decline of logical positivism and a subsequent revival in metaphysics. Analytic philosophy has also developed several new branches of philosophy...

Based on the observation that metaphysics aims to characterize the things in themselves, he concludes that no metaphysical knowledge is possible, like knowing...

Feminist metaphysics aims to question how inquiries and answers in the field of metaphysics have supported sexism. Feminist metaphysics overlaps with fields...

used the term cosmology in Latin (cosmologia) to denote a branch of metaphysics that deals with the general nature of the physical world. Cosmology is...

philosophy, epistemology stands alongside fields like ethics, logic, and metaphysics. The term can also refer to specific positions of philosophers within...

"Introduction to Metaphysics" (French: "Introduction à la Métaphysique") is a 1903 essay about the concept of reality by Henri Bergson. For Bergson, reality...

is two). The term has different meanings in metaphysics, ontology, epistemology and logic. In metaphysics, it is the view that there are in fact many...

The Development of Metaphysics in Persia is the book form of Muhammad Iqbal's PhD thesis in philosophy at LMU Munich submitted in 1908 and published in...

The Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ) is a theory of reality introduced in Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

extraordinary". Obsolete uses include "of, relating to, or dealing with metaphysics". As a noun, the term can mean "a supernatural being", with a particularly...

generally focused on ancient philosophy, metaphysics and feminist theory. She has written extensively about the metaphysics of gender, about Aristotle (especially...

The Metaphysical Society of America (MSA) is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950. As stated in its constitution, "The purpose of...

Metaphysical nihilism is the philosophical theory that there might have been no objects at all—that is, that there is a possible world in which there are...

beholder. This includes a number of positions within epistemology and metaphysics which express that a given thing instead exists independently of knowledge...

philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality...

strongly questioned the very possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Both philosophers undermined the metaphysical basis of natural theology and criticized...

Heinlein has the main character, Maureen, state that the purpose of metaphysics is to ask questions: "Why are we here?" "Where are we going after we...

Metaphysics of presence (German: Metaphysik der Anwesenheit) is a view held by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time that holds the entire history of Western...

Voluntarism is "any metaphysical or psychological system that assigns to the will (Latin: voluntas) a more predominant role than that attributed to the...

Metaphysical painting (Italian: pittura metafisica) or metaphysical art was a style of painting developed by the Italian artists Giorgio de Chirico and...

touches on topics of existence, identity, and the nature of reality. In metaphysics, objects are often considered entities that possess properties and can...

the first Christian teacher to fully present Christian philosophy and metaphysics as a robust alternative to other schools (especially Platonism). Origen...

Enlightenment. His comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and the philosophy of religion...

Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (German: Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik) is a 1929 book about Immanuel Kant by the German philosopher Martin...

In Islamic philosophy, Sufi metaphysics is centered on the concept of وحدة, waḥdah, 'unity' or توحيد, tawhid. Two main Sufi philosophies prevail on this...

The Review of Metaphysics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy. It was established by Paul Weiss and the first issue was published in September...

support of an argument, for what reason or purpose Grounding (metaphysics), a topic in metaphysics regarding how things exist in virtue of more fundamental...

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science (German: Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik, die als...

capitalism, and that the role of art in human life is to transform humans' metaphysical ideas by selective reproduction of reality into a physical form—a work...

In metaphysics, identity (from Latin: identitas, "sameness") is the relation each thing bears only to itself. The notion of identity gives rise to many...

appear', and 'to arise'. Existence is studied by the subdiscipline of metaphysics known as ontology. The terms being, reality, and actuality are often...

"Christian Metaphysics and Neoplatonism" (1936) is the title of Albert Camus' thesis that would obtain for him permission to teach in the secondary schools...

Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger, who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics". No experiment could support the hypothesis "There is nothing" because...

Popular Metaphysics was a record label created by Sandy Pearlman in Studio C of the Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco in 1989. The label was short...

By advocating for individual liberty in its moral, psychological, and metaphysical dimensions, Spinoza helped establish the genre of political writing called...

this also refutes versions of dualism that have purely third-personal metaphysics. List has proposed a model he calls the "many-worlds theory of consciousness"...

formalistic idealism Kant discusses in his Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics, although recent research has tended to dispute this identification....

Gnosticism and Manichaeism. Metaphysical pluralism, which asserts three or more fundamental substances or realities. Metaphysical nihilism, negates any of...

from 1930 to 1976. Kinley is the founder of the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research. The book was originally published in 1961, under the title...

chair of metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Religious Studies at LMU Munich. Her interests include metaphysics, the philosophy...

Abstract object theory (AOT) is a branch of metaphysics regarding abstract objects. Originally devised by metaphysician Edward Zalta in 1981, the theory...

In metaphysics and ontology, nonexistent objects are a concept advanced by Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong in the 19th and 20th centuries within...

The Metaphysical Magazine was a late 19th and early 20th century American periodical devoted to occult and metaphysical matters. Intermittently it published...

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a series of anthology books on metaphysics published by Oxford University Press. The series editors are Karen Bennett...

(2021). "Deontological Ethics". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Archived from the original on June...

minister Jean Des Champs, a former pupil of Wolff, to summarize Wolff's metaphysical work Vernünftige Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen...

Serial Metaphysics is a 1972 collage film by experimental filmmaker Wheeler Winston Dixon. An examination of the American lifestyle recut entirely from...

triggering has a statistical value. The debate about dispositions in metaphysics attempts to understand the fundamental nature of properties, including...

Metaphysical concepts relate to the ideas of transcendent and universal elements that surpass the human interactions. They aim to explore notions that...

In metaphysics, metaphysical solipsism is the variety of idealism which asserts that nothing exists externally to this one mind, and since this mind is...

In metaphysics, balance is a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical...

and is not assumed. There are many varieties of anti-realism, such as metaphysical, mathematical, semantic, scientific, moral and epistemic. The term was...

Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album is an album by Hasaan Ibn Ali. His quartet recorded the material on it in 1965 for Atlantic Records, which chose...

work on a follow-up. For this book he developed a value-based metaphysics, Metaphysics of Quality, that challenges our subject–object view of reality...

Introduction to Metaphysics (German: Einführung in die Metaphysik) is a revised and edited 1935 lecture course by Martin Heidegger first published in...

The type–token distinction is the difference between a type of objects (analogous to a class) and the individual tokens of that type (analogous to instances)...

In philosophy and logic (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; for example, a red object is said to have the property...

The problem of universals is an ancient question from metaphysics that has inspired a range of philosophical topics and disputes: "Should the properties...

philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Introduced in Kant's 1785 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, it is a way of evaluating motivations for action. It is best...

films are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Infused with a metaphysical outlook, his works thematise epistemology, existentialism, ethics, the...

In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. There are two...

"What Is Metaphysics?" (German: Was ist Metaphysik?) is a lecture by the philosopher Martin Heidegger, first presented to the faculties of the University...

Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson is a 2001 book edited by Alex Byrne, Robert C. Stalnaker and Ralph Wedgwood...

experience is said to act as a neutral arbiter between competing theories. In metaphysics, experience is involved in the mind–body problem and the hard problem...

René Guénon in the 20th century, it proposes that a single primordial, metaphysical truth forms the source for, and is shared by, all the major world religions...

credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. A major concept in metaphysics, the theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as...

consciousness studies and the development of analytic idealism, a form of metaphysical idealism developed within the analytic tradition. He questions physicalism...

The stemma codicum of Aristotle's Metaphysics is a visual representation with the shape of a family tree, which is the standard one in stemmatics. It...

intuitions behind classical logic and apply it to other fields, such as metaphysics, ethics, and epistemology, as frameworks for reasoning about what is...

specialising in philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. His interests included the metaphysics and epistemology of emergence, computational...

Emeritus Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds, whose special interests include agnosticism, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and philosophy...

becoming that encompasses a "naturalistic doctrine intended to counter the metaphysical preoccupation with being", and a theory of "the incessant shift of perspectives...

American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America. Paul Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side...

critique of philosophy. In the 17th century, Mulla Sadra developed a metaphysical system based on mysticism. Islamic modernism emerged in the 19th and...

example is the phrase en to psychiko platei. In the late 19th century, the metaphysical term "planes" was popularised by the theosophy of H. P. Blavatsky, who...

mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western...

Powers: A Study in Metaphysics is a philosophical book written by George Molnar and published posthumously in 2003. After Molnar's death, the book was...

Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics is a 2003 book by Allan Silverman in which he offers an account of Plato's metaphysics. Silverman believes that the...

and initiation. In his writings, Guénon proposes to hand down eastern metaphysics and traditions, these doctrines being defined by him as of "universal...

and cultures; others argue that religious traditions share a single metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine...

significant developments in the fields of philosophy of religion, logic, and metaphysics. The high medieval Scholastic period was disparagingly treated by the...

nature and role of the world. Samkhya philosophy, for example, is a metaphysical dualism that understands reality as comprising 2 parts: purusha and prakriti...

Incorporeals, The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Jun., 2001), pp. 723–752 Jacques Brunschwig "Stoic Metaphysics", p. 228 in Brad Inwood (ed.)...

incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilism and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism (the claim that determinism is false and thus free will...

transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic, metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German...

2014) was an Australian philosopher. He is well known for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind, and for his defence of a factualist ontology...

Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical...

existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ontology. Levinas was born on 12 January 1906, into a middle-class...

notion that has been interpreted and debated across various schools of metaphysics. In ancient Greek philosophy, the Void was discussed by thinkers like...

the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics. Hofweber...

Spirituality?", and contains several new ideas, including Integral post-metaphysics and the Wilber-Combs lattice. In 2006, he published "Integral Spirituality"...

February 1650) was a French polymath, active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of science; theology; mathematics...

Psychology Doctor of Metaphysics Doctor of Science Doctor of Psychotherapy Doctor of BioPsychology (BPD) Doctor of Philosophy in Metaphysics (PhDM) Doctor of...

Modern Philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics and focuses on the philosophy of John Locke. He is the author of Locke’s Metaphysics (Oxford Clarendon...

Muslim philosophers being felt in natural philosophy, psychology and metaphysics. Hans Daiber's Bibliography of Islamic Philosophy lists approximately...

was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in logic and metaphysics. Little is known as yet about the private life of Regnand. He probably...

currently Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University. Mumford is best known for his work in metaphysics on dispositions and...

. men began to break loose from the trammels of Greek and mediaeval metaphysics, and to realize that a process is not explained by the arbitrary assumption...

Cort 2010, p. 90. CIL, "Indian Cosmology Reflections in Religion and Metaphysics", Ignca.nic.in, archived from the original on 30 January 2012, retrieved...

In metaphysics, conceptualism is a theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate...

In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence...

Theodore Ronald Sider is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at...

particular prominence in modern philosophy as a result of Descartes' metaphysical distinction between mind and body. Earlier philosophers typically did...

covered topics as varied as cosmology, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ontology, phenomenology, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of time...

ignorance of, or carelessness with the application of various 'Laws of Metaphysics' (see below) can bring about undesirable life events. Some of the Spiritual...

returns, the origin and cause of all that exists. In contemporary Hindu metaphysics it is the highest universal principle, the Ultimate reality of the universe...

Metaphysics is the second album by Duncan Avoid. "Awakening" – 2:03 "Auditory Arms" – 3:36 "Parallel Grounds" – 4:07 "Systemic Ressentiment" – 5:24 "Lucid...

linguistics "the regulatory model", and "for essential, and essentially metaphysical, reasons had to privilege speech, and everything that links the sign...

objects. The concept of reality is relevant to many fields, including metaphysics, epistemology, physics, psychology, and anthropology. Theories of the...

Schiller's fear of reprisal from his anti-metaphysical colleagues should not suggest that Schiller was a friend of metaphysics. Like his fellow pragmatists across...

and dogmatic religious teachings. Major fields of philosophy include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and axiology (which includes ethics and aesthetics)...

supervision of Ralph Barton Perry. He submitted his thesis – titled A Metaphysical Interpretation of Behaviorism – on 1 April 1928. In that same year he...

are in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He is the former Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford...

– Liberalism – Liberal naturalism – Libertarianism – Libertarianism (metaphysics) – Libertinism – Linguistics, philosophy of – Logic – Logical atomism...

American professor of philosophy at Rutgers University specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Zimmerman received his bachelor's degree...

philosophy. It is a short text which presents, in some 90 paragraphs, a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. During his last stay in Vienna from...

California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the development of object-oriented ontology. He is...

In philosophy and metaphysics, materialism is a form of monism holding that matter is the fundamental substance of nature, so that all things, including...

argued to be a confusion over the nature of mind born from Cartesian metaphysics. Ryle argues that it is a mistake to treat the mind as an object made...

philosophical work explores problems of self-reference and non-realist metaphysics. In Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament (1985), he argued that self-referential...

a specialist in early modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, and in metaphysics. Della Rocca earned his B.A. at Harvard University and his Ph.D. at the...

itself. A metaphysical model is a type of conceptual model which is distinguished from other conceptual models by its proposed scope; a metaphysical model...

Kant, in which the author seeks to determine the limits and scope of metaphysics. Also referred to as Kant's "First Critique", it was followed by his...

mind–body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of...

career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987. He had previously...

development of Western philosophy. New philosophical theories, such as the metaphysical, civic existence, epistemology, and rationalist thinking, were established...

logical form). The verifiability criterion thus rejected statements of metaphysics, theology, ethics and aesthetics as cognitively meaningless in terms...

Metaphysical Graffiti is the fifth studio album by the Dead Milkmen, released by Enigma Records in 1990. The album title and cover art, the latter designed...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, and the Metaphysics of Morals. While the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is...

This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers. Veda Vyasa Kapila Pythagoras Thales Anaximander...

and professor. He made contributions to the subjects of naturalism and metaphysics, introducing the concept of the natural complex. Buchler was born in...

itself moved by any prior action. In Book 12 (Ancient Greek: Λ) of his Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful,...

Social ontology is a branch of ontology and metaphysics that studies the nature and basic categories of the social world. It asks which kinds of social...

made significant contributions to various fields, including ethics, metaphysics, botany, and natural history. Often considered the "father of botany"...

a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico...

"Peter Abelard", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2023 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2026-06-07 Chalmers, D....

American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of physics and logic. Maudlin graduated from Sidwell Friends...

The metaphysical detective story is a literary genre of experimental fiction in the 20th century and has a complicated relationship with traditional detective...

the death of metaphysics. He concluded that metaphysics has reached its potential and that the ultimate fate and downfall of metaphysics was proclaimed...

University. She is known for her works on philosophical psychology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework...

logic; the search for an empiricist criterion of meaning; the critique of metaphysics and the unification of the sciences in the unity of science. The Vienna...

serious form of viciousness involves a contradiction in the form of metaphysical impossibility. Other forms occur when the infinite regress is responsible...

and writing on process and metaphysics when he joined Harvard University in 1924. This tradition identifies metaphysical reality with change. Process...

January 7, 1951) is an Irish philosopher who has written on ontology, metaphysics, ethics, and religion. Desmond earned his B.A. and M.A. from University...

The Source is a metaphysical concept created by writer-artist Jack Kirby for his Fourth World series of comic books. It first appeared in New Gods #1 (February...

He is known for his works on metaphysics. Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 4th. ed. (co-author) (2017) Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction...

Hofweber, Thomas (2022-12-08). "The Case Against Higher-Order Metaphysics". Metaphysics Collaborative. 5 (1): 29–50. doi:10.5334/met.83. Williamson, Timothy...

 769–771 Kment 2021, Lead section, § 1. Epistemic and Metaphysical Modality, § 2. Metaphysical and Nomic Modality Garson 2024, Lead section, § 1. What...

His main interests in philosophy center on philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. Travis received his Bachelor of Arts from University...

Grima (c. 1680–1745) was a Maltese philosopher who specialised mainly in metaphysics and logic. Grima was born at Mdina, Malta, around 1680. He joined the...

Topics, Sophistici Elenchi, Analytics, Metaphysics Δ, the physical works, the Ethics, and the rest of the Metaphysics. Many modern scholars, however, based...

Penn State in 2007. In his 2013 book Hegel's Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity Bowman offers a metaphysical reading of Hegel, that both offers a 'radical...

Elizabeth Barnes is an American philosopher working in feminist philosophy, metaphysics, social philosophy and ethics. Barnes is a professor of philosophy at...

person. Metaphysical possibility has been thought to be more restricting than bare logical possibility (i.e., fewer things are metaphysically possible...

epistemology, a stock argument for attacking beliefs and assumptions In metaphysics, a particular instance of a universal In Hayden White's metahistory,...

was a Hungarian-born philosopher whose principal area of interest was metaphysics. He worked mainly in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney...

the Metaphysics of Morals, BookSurge (2008) The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987. Metaphysics: A Contemporary...

Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 15 November 2020. Ross, James F. “The Crash of Modal Metaphysics.” The Review of Metaphysics...

a metaphysics of nature and a metaphysics of morals. Next, Kant began work on a metaphysics of morals by writing the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of...

Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Fraser, Chris (2024a). "School of Names". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research...

University of Manchester, specialising in mind-body identity theory, and metaphysics. She is a professor emerita at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand...

statement. But the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement. With it, he stays with metaphysics, in oblivion of the truth of...

Actualism. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |website= ignored (help) Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...

transcending linguistic barriers. In merging astrology, alchemy, mysticism, and metaphysics, the Hieroglyphic Monad serves as a visual manifestation of Dee's interconnected...

mathematics (a quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy), and metaphysics. It was influenced by ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle; Hellenistic...

The Metaphysical Society was a famous British debating society, founded in 1869 by James Knowles, who acted as Secretary. Membership was by invitation...

order to provide a semantics for intensional and modal logic. Their metaphysical status has been a subject of controversy in philosophy, with modal realists...

"designed to replicate the open space of a square in an Italian city". That metaphysical propositions can influence scientific theorizing is indeed, arguably...

Mountain Publishing which specializes in New Age, spirituality, and metaphysical books. Dolores Eilene Taylor was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April...

defended his Disputatio Metaphysica de Principio Individui (transl. Metaphysical Disputation on the Principle of Individuation), which addressed the principle...

is known for his works on metaphysics and infinity. Benardete was notable for developing Grim Reaper paradoxes. In metaphysics and the philosophy of religion...

He is known for his work on metaphysics. Kant's Compatibilism, Cornell University Press, 1994 A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, Cornell...

philosophy, especially the subjects logic, ethics and metaphysics, including treatises named Logic and Metaphysics. Most of his works were written in Arabic, then...

of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his works on epistemology, metaphysics and history of ethics. Knowledge, Mind, and Nature (1967) Rationalism...

to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and On the Soul. In this context, the concept of...

subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism...

contemporary metaphysics. He coined the term "abstract object". In his famous essay "On What There Is", he connected each of the three main metaphysical ontological...

Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2016, 352pp., ISBN 9780198712626. McDaniel, Kris (September 2018). "Nicholas Stang's Kant's Modal Metaphysics"...

Shili, Mou Zongsan sought to articulate and justify a moral metaphysics. A moral metaphysics asserts the interconnectedness of ontology and morality, implying...

Perennialism. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, religion, anthropology, and art. He was also a painter...

Peirce divided metaphysics into (1) ontology or general metaphysics, (2) psychical or religious metaphysics, and (3) physical metaphysics. On the issue...

Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Neo-Scholastic Essay, and Five Proofs of...

the Doloran Fathers. Ripperger is noted for his public commentary on metaphysics, the Mass, spiritual warfare, mental health, and prayer, particularly...

In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics (the philosophical study of...

writings on Islamic philosophy, Persian and Urdu literature, Sufism, and metaphysics. He is a former director of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan. Ahmed Javaid...

David Simon Oderberg (born 1963) is an Australian philosopher of metaphysics and ethics based in Britain since 1987. He is Professor of Philosophy at...

"Phenomenal Intentionality". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Archived from the original on 1 May...

the combined position of both A-theory being true and the "I" being metaphysically privileged from other perspectives. One main objection to presentism...

Haack wrote on logic, the philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Her pragmatism followed that of Charles Sanders Peirce. Haack was a...

is a winner of the Lakatos Award. He specializes in social ontology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of the social sciences. Social Ontology, Cambridge...

Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Mellor, D. H. "Real Metaphysics: Replies". Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of...

Varshizky lives in Berlin with his wife and two children. His book The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview (2021) was awarded the...

classification of the metaphysics that appeared in the history of philosophy. He proposed a differentiation between immanentistic metaphysics and transcendentistic...

York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-06862-2 Gaia theory Involution (esoterism) Metaphysical cosmology Moore's law Noosphere Spiritual evolution Universal Darwinism...

Descartes. She was critical of Descartes' dualistic metaphysics and her work anticipated the metaphysical concerns of later philosophers. Elisabeth Simmern...

dissertation, "Agency: Some Metaphysical Questions Concerning Human Action". Primarily working in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics, Valberg's writings...

due to its presumed ontological implausibility. Outside of logic and metaphysics, Sylvan was a proponent of so-called deep environmental ethics in the...

Reviews of Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being: Adamson, Peter (2009). "Sajjad H. Rizvi, Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics: Modulation of Being". Holy...

"Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical" is an essay by John Rawls, published in 1985. In it he describes his conception of justice. It comprises...

do not cause anything to happen in the physical world. Metaphysical relation – In metaphysics, concrete objects are specific, individual things (particulars)...

Ground of the Soul Absolute (philosophy) Deleuzian metaphysics "The One is not" in the metaphysics of Alan Badiou's work Being and Event Giovanni Pico...

positivism in Language, Truth, and Logic (1936). The work's dismissal of metaphysics, and endorsement of emotivism was the cause of much controversy and debate...

University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research focuses on metaphysics, especially on the metaphysics of science and mind, the epistemologies of skepticism...

read to this day. The book consists of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system at its most detailed level and in the expanding of his philosophical...

specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the philosophy of art. She is the author of Fiction and Metaphysics (1999), Ordinary...

Study, Tampere University. His work spans the history of philosophy, metaphysics, phenomenology, and the conceptual history of politics and life.[citation...

deductive system-building vs. piecemeal induction; in metaphysics, rationalist theology vs. metaphysical agnosticism; in ethics, non-naturalist deontology...

(August 2017). "IV. Metaphysical Beliefs and Persisting Disagreement". A Metaphysician's User Guide: The Epistemology of Metaphysics (PhD thesis). Syracuse...

supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality", or that which is metaphysically prior to all of reality. It refers to the most fundamental aspect of...

ISBN 978-0-7387-0628-3. Whitehurst, Tess (2013). The Magic of Flowers: A Guide to Their Metaphysical Uses & Properties. Llewellyn Worldwide. pp. 295–. ISBN 978-0-7387-3194-0...

main areas of interest are Kant, Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and language, ethics...

the law of non-contradiction "the most certain of all principles" in Metaphysics Book IV. Ever since, the law has been high orthodoxy. Aristotle gives...

an American philosopher, specializing in philosophy of language and metaphysics. He was emeritus professor of philosophy at UCLA. Parsons was born in...

that George has designed and built. The vessel becomes a symbol of a metaphysical "something" that "drives", that "is at once human achievement and the...

in English is the result of back-formation from the word "metaphysics". In origin Metaphysics was just the title of one of the principal works of Aristotle;...

professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley, working primarily in the areas of metaphysics, value theory, and philosophy of science. Dasgupta received his BSc in...

(सांख्य) is the earliest school of dualism; Yoga (योग) combines the metaphysics of Samkhya with meditation and breath techniques; Nyaya (न्याय) is a...

philosophy of language, cognitive science/philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics/philosophical logic, semantics and pragmatics. He is currently leading...

best exemplified in metaphysics, where empiricists tend to take a skeptical position, thereby denying the existence of metaphysical knowledge, while rationalists...

philosophical method of French philosopher Henri Bergson. In An Introduction to Metaphysics, Bergson introduces two ways in which an object can be known: absolutely...

"materialist open realism", which "attempted to reformulate classical metaphysics, in a language that was entirely compatible with modern science". Zubiri...

in the traditional Islamic sciences and studied theology, philosophy, metaphysics, history, and literature. He pioneered the concept of Islamisation of...

Metaphysical Dog is the eighth book of collected free verse poems by American poet Frank Bidart. It was published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Beauvoir". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 ed.). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 9 April 2022. Cohen, Patricia...

common sense are fundamental to our accumulation of knowledge of both metaphysical and physical constructs. However, observation alone cannot account for...

is true. Metaphysical Knowledge Maritain discusses a kind of knowledge whose objects are beyond our sensible experience – that is metaphysical knowledge...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who wrote a book "on hypnosis, spiritualism, and metaphysics"; Wolfgang Pauli, who, together with Carl Jung, "developed the concept...

Axiarchism (from Greek axia {ἀξία, a-ksi-a} 'value') is a metaphysical position that everything that exists, including the universe itself, exists for...

chapter, in association with select verses in other chapters, make the metaphysics of the Gita to be dualistic. However, its overall thesis, according to...

U (eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 11 November 2023 Downing...

He was a prolific writer who made contributions to Kant scholarship, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. Alfred Ewing was...

the foundation of Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics and his metaphysical model, particularly as articulated in his book Wholeness and the Implicate...

"incapable of satisfying" and painful. This keeps us caught in saṃsāra, metaphysically interpreted as the endless cycle of repeated rebirth, dukkha and dying...

these ideas with his concept of the unmoved mover, as discussed in his Metaphysics. The unmoved mover is the ultimate cause of all motion in the universe...

Michigan. Appointed department chair in 1929, Parker published works on metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. (1917) The Self and Nature (1920) The Principles...

Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2023-08-25 Tipler, Frank...

Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits (Italian: Interno metafisico con biscotti) is a 1916 painting by Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico....

College. She specializes in bioethics, the ethics of procreation, and the metaphysics of birth, death, and existence. Weinberg attended Brooklyn College, where...

known as Le chant d'amour or Love Song) is a 1914 painting by Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. It is one of the most famous works by Chirico...

In philosophy (often specifically metaphysics), the absolute, in most common usage, is an absolute perfect, self-sufficient reality that depends upon...

an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics. It covers the treatment of the social sciences under a system of natural...

List of Epicurean philosophers List of Stoic philosophers Aristotle, Metaphysics Alpha, 983b18. Russell, Bertrand. "The History of Western Philosophy...

Metaphysik (Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 1929), elaborated some elements of the destruction of metaphysics which Heidegger intended to pursue in...

up Force or force in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Force is a metaphysical power in the Star Wars fictional universe. The Force may also refer to:...

Elements of the Philosophy of Right (1991), Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (2002), Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (2010)...

they denote different theories in other branches of philosophy, such as metaphysics. Political methodology, a closely related subdiscipline of political...

astronomy, epistemology, mathematics, political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, rhetoric and aesthetics. Greek philosophy...

Institute (FQXi.) Ismael's work has been influential in the scholarship of metaphysics and the philosophy of physics. Ismael earned her M.A. and PhD from Princeton...

of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is known for his expertise on metaphysics, philosophy of science, and epistemology. Hall graduated from Reed College...

métaphysique (Vrin, 1981). Appears in English as Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), with two new chapters and a new preface...

that world. The concept of centered worlds has epistemic as well as metaphysical uses; for the latter, the three components of a centered world have connections...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his works on metaphysics, philosophy of science, and aesthetics. Objective Becoming, Oxford University...

expressed as a criterion of meaning, it rejects traditional statements of metaphysics, theology, ethics and aesthetics as meaningless in terms of conveying...

environmental philosopher whose main work has been in the areas of ecological metaphysics and panpsychism. Her current special interests are in ecological civilization;...

Ethical subjectivism is a form of moral anti-realism that denies the "metaphysical thesis" of moral realism, (the claim that moral truths are ordinary facts...

Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics | CSCP / SCPC". c-scp.org. Retrieved 2025-06-09. Tolley, Clinton. "Jacob McNulty, Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics, Cambridge University...

general religious, theological, and metaphysical belief Seven Heavens a classic generally esoteric and metaphysical study of heaven Heavens (band), an...

is an American Catholic philosopher and translator, specializing in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of religion, and moral and political...

imagined by Gottfried Leibniz able to express mathematical, scientific, and metaphysical concepts. Leibniz thus hoped to create a language usable within the framework...

10 June 1972) is an Italian philosopher and academic who deals with metaphysics, general ontology and the ontological implications of formal theories...

Major views on the afterlife derive from religion, esotericism, and metaphysics. Some belief systems, such as many pagan ones, hold that the dead go...

philosophy comes in two different varieties. They are both doctrines of metaphysics, but they are different in scope and ambitions: the first is a global...

at the University of Edinburgh, where he was professor of logic and metaphysics, and latterly an emeritus fellow. Sprigge was educated at the Dragon...

asserted that certain principles exist in logic, mathematics, ethics, and metaphysics that are so fundamentally true that denying them causes one to fall into...

aesthetics, naturalism and also Sade's dark, fatalistic view of world metaphysics. The majority of the novel is a first-person narrative in which the amoral...

stazione di Montparnasse) is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico, from 1914. It is held at the Museum of Modern...

is a British philosopher and John Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University. He is known for his works on set theory. Hallett...

(1947–1958), and Yale University (1958–1963). He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1977. He was a founder of the journal Philosophical...

print edition: ISBN 9789004146662, 2006-2013 Aristotle. Metaphysics. 1072a ff. Aristotle. Metaphysics. 1073a13 ff. Abdullah Saeed, Islamic Thought: An Introduction...

in particular. The oldest professorship is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy. The three science professorships were created following the...

for this regularity of conjunction. This is closely connected to his metaphysical thesis that there are no necessary connections between distinct entities...

during late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. In his metaphysical writings, Plotinus described three fundamental principles: the One, the...

academic journal of philosophy with a particular emphasis on the history of metaphysics. it was established in 2002 and is published by Brepols. Its editors...

"Abilities: 1. A taxonomy". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 31 August 2021. Wilson,...

at the University of Texas at Austin, noted for his contribution to metaphysics and philosophical logic. Koons has also advocated for academic freedom...

primarily interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, cognitive science, and analytic philosophy. William Hirstein received...

philosophy, Auxier specializes in classical American thought, process metaphysics and theology, intensive logics, aesthetics, philosophical anthropology...

philosophy and metaphysics. The analogy can be described like this: Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like...

2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his contributions to metaphysics and virtue ethics. He was also an internationally known beekeeper. Richard...

because metaphysics can be exposed in many treatises; and we have “of the metaphysics”, and not “of metaphysics”, because there is but one “metaphysics”. “The...

philosopher most known for his work in idealism, philosophy of time, and metaphysics. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy...

had something to say on many subjects, including several aspects of metaphysics. These include religion and science, human nature, love, and sexuality...

in the High Middle Ages, the transcendentals have been the subject of metaphysics. Although there was disagreement about their number, there was consensus...

Philosophy at New York University. His main interests lie in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. Unger attended Swarthmore...

another time?" or "What kinds of things are persons?" In contemporary metaphysics, the matter of personal identity is referred to as the diachronic problem...

Bistury: Album de caricaturas (1931). In 1946 Mendez founded the Christian Metaphysics movement in Venezuela, under the influence of Count Saint-Germain, the...

(1889–1976) criticized value theory, claiming that it rests on a mistaken metaphysical perspective by understanding values as aspects of things. Existentialist...

is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller. Chesterton prefaced the novel with a poem written to Edmund...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 25 November 2021. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...

traditional agnostics who often hold a skeptical view about gods or other metaphysical entities (i.e. "We can't or don't know for sure that there is a God")...

and Ludwig Wittgenstein – who called it the fundamental question of metaphysics. The question is general, rather than concerning the existence of anything...

(2024). "Logical Consequence". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Bonevac, Daniel (1999). "Philosophy...

(18th/19th centuries) was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in metaphysics. Almost nothing is known as yet about the personal life of Costa, only...

(17) Metaphysics – programming (17) Sean C – programming (18) LV – programming (18) Lenny Green – programming (19) "Ghostface Killah – 'Metaphysics'". August...

Phenomenology examines the subjective experience of thinking, while metaphysics addresses how mental processes relate to matter in a naturalistic framework...

investigates non-aesthetic features of artworks, belonging to fields such as metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and ethics. Even though the philosophical...

Broadbent, Alex (5 February 2016). Philosophy for Graduate Students: Metaphysics and Epistemology. Routledge. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-317-39714-4. Bronkhorst...

In metaphysics, particulars or individuals are usually contrasted with universals. Universals concern features that can be exemplified by various different...

In formal ontology, a branch of metaphysics, and in ontological computer science, mereotopology is a first-order theory, embodying mereological and topological...

areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of physics and metaphysics. Callender obtained his PhD in 1997 from Rutgers University with a thesis...

needed] Abstract and concrete Being Ghost Idolatry Materialism Matter Metaphysics Non-physical entity Transparency and translucency Vacuum Porter, Noah...

Christian theology and responded critically to Cartesian philosophy. His metaphysical writings addressed the nature of spirit, matter, divine providence, and...

is mainly known for his contributions in that field of research. In metaphysics, he is known for introducing a distinction between two kinds of predication...

He is known for his work on metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics, with Joshua Hoffman, Scarecrow...

as generalized Darwinism, universal selection theory, and Darwinian metaphysics. Hodgson, G. M. (2005). "Generalizing Darwinism to social evolution:...

predicable in a given genus only of the definiendum; or the corresponding "metaphysical part" of the object. In the original, logical sense, a differentia is...

Rig Veda is one of the earliest texts which "demonstrates a sense of metaphysical speculation" about what created the universe, the concept of god(s) and...

James Frederick Ferrier (16 June 1808 – 11 June 1864) was a Scottish metaphysical writer and philosopher. He introduced the word epistemology in philosophical...

comparable either to Plato or Socrates. Cratylus is mentioned in Aristotle's Metaphysics in a passage that seemingly implies he was an established and active...

works on continental philosophy. The Logical Foundations of Bradley’s Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong), is a theory in logic and metaphysics. It holds that some things do not exist. It was coined by Richard Routley...

Nietzsche used "God" as a symbol representing Christian morality and its metaphysical worldview that, for centuries, provided Europe with its foundation for...

philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of interest are metaphysics, philosophical logic, ethics, and Eastern philosophy. Bonevac is from...

Álvarez (born August 11, 1916) was a Spanish philosopher and professor of metaphysics who worked in Argentina and Spain. He was the Director General of Secondary...

Kong in the fall of 2016. In his 2020 book, Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics, Moss tries to shed new light on Hegel's Science of Logic, with the help...

Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, pages 11 to 14 Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, pages 11 to 13. The Stanford...

A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion is a 2007 non-fiction book written by Catherine L. Albanese. It was...

Westerhoff is a German philosopher and orientalist with specific interests in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. He is currently Professor of Buddhist...

endeavour on a smaller scale, to philosophize the wisdom of Chaldea. The metaphysical schema of the Chaldean Oracles begins with an absolute transcendent deity...

religion and metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and phenomenology to the metaphysics of classical Thomism...

Kleinzeit is a metaphysical novel by Russell Hoban. Hoban's second novel for adults, Kleinzeit is a story detailing the eponymous title character's brush...

Review of Metaphysics. 5 (4): 599–620. ISSN 0034-6632. JSTOR 20123292. Recently translated to English. Erich Przywara, Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original...

Zimbabwean born film and music producer, also known by his artist name of Metaphysics. He is most famous for being a member of the multi-platinum selling German...

Heidelberg. With numerous publications on Plato and Neoplatonism as well as metaphysics, he became known beyond specialist circles. Like his siblings Insa and...

Whitehead's metaphysics and it identifies a mechanism by which both perception and memory are essentially the products of a common metaphysical process....

The American Metaphysical Circus is a 1969 album by Joseph "Joe" Byrd. It was recorded after his departure from the band The United States of America,...

objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Various understandings of this distinction have evolved through the...

present or absent in situations for reasons that have nothing to do with metaphysics. In other words, that causal determinism does not exclude the truth of...

and inspire them to act. Here is Latour's description of metaphysics: If we call metaphysics the discipline inspired by the philosophical tradition that...

current ordinary language is "explanation." In Physics II.3, I.7–9 and Metaphysics V.2, Aristotle holds that there are four kinds of answers to "why" questions:...

(Tiqqun, Conscious Organ of the Imaginary Party: Exercises in Critical Metaphysics). The second issue was published in October 2001 with the title Tiqqun...

work. In 2020, he moved to the United States. He became a teacher of metaphysics and theology at the SSPX seminary in Dillwyn, Virginia. On 26 May 2026...

Tartaglia (born 29 October 1973) is a British philosopher who defends metaphysical idealism and existential nihilism, as well as a jazz saxophonist whose...

highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume...

of science is that causation is central in scientific explanation. In metaphysics, Salmon sought a "process theory" of causality to model "causality without...

religion; philosophy of language and logic; psychology and epistemology; metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics. He was an expert in both practical...

Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, and ethics. Rosen graduated from Columbia...

on ancient philosophy. The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato's Metaphysics, Princeton University Press, 2003 "Allan Silverman". Department of Philosophy...

and I define 'yellow' (say) as this" being effectively attacked. — Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: The Collected Philosophical Papers of G....

who saw metaphysics as a catalyst for spiritual development, religious enlightenment, and immortality, the neo-Confucianists used metaphysics as a guide...

tutor of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She was previously Professor of Metaphysics and Poetics. Catherine Jane Crozier Pickstock was born in 1970 in New...

concepts of metaphysics will never be entirely eliminated...There is no simple 'overcoming' of metaphysics or the language of metaphysics. Paul Ricœur...

University. He is best known for his works on philosophy of mind and metaphysics. The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System...

Building (2022). MacLaine has written many books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out...

Paraconsistent logic Substructural logic Metalogic Philosophy of logic Metaphysics – concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world...

existence of multiple deities) can be categorized as logical, empirical, metaphysical, subjective, or scientific. In philosophical terms, the question of the...

 203–204. "Niccolò Machiavelli". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2025. Johnston, David; Urbinati, Nadia;...

at the Ohio State University. He is known for his works on Leibniz's metaphysics and is the editor of The Leibniz Review. Glenn Hartz attended The King's...

that fall within time — meaning, for Kant, restricted to phenomena." Metaphysical entities that are not related to time, such as spontaneous or uncaused...

texts of Indian philosophies include extensive discussions on ontology (metaphysics, Brahman-Atman, Sunyata-Anatta), reliable means of knowledge (epistemology...

Plato and Aristotle. His best-known extant work is a commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. He is said to have written also on the De Caelo and the...

(28 March 1925 – 13 April 2017) was a British philosopher of physics, metaphysics, ethics, and the history of science. Trusted was born in Cambridge on...

"Salomon Maimon". Salomon Maimon (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2021. Perhaps the most obvious problem...

Philosophy (Taylor & Francis, 1998), p. 145. David Sedley, "Stoic Physics and Metaphysics," The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, p. 388. John Sellars...

various ways to its development. The new essentialism is an emerging metaphysical perspective that is the culmination of many different attempts to arrive...

Akbarianism (Arabic: أكبرية, romanized: Akbariyya) is a branch of Sufi metaphysics based on the teachings of Ibn Arabi, an Andalusian Sufi who was a mystic...

know it and instills in him a desire to investigate it. In Aristotle's Metaphysics, aporia plays a role in his method of inquiry. In contrast to a rationalist...

Antireductionism is the position in science and metaphysics that stands in contrast to reductionism (anti-holism) by advocating that not all properties...

Glossary of Metaphysics". In Le Poidevin, Robin; Peter, Simons; Andrew, McGonigal; Cameron, Ross P. (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics. Routledge...

Tiercelin (French: [klodin tjɛʁsəlɛ̃]) is a French philosopher, working on metaphysics and philosophy of science. She is professor of philosophy at the Collège...

possible worlds, whereas the contingent hinges on the world's state, a metaphysical basis. And the a priori is knowable without, whereas the a posteriori...

painter, writer and speaker on metaphysical subjects. He was a disciple of Conny Méndez, who in 1946 founded the Metaphysical Teachings in Venezuela. He was...

religious hymn (stotra) to Shiva attributed to Adi Shankara. It explains the metaphysics of the universe in the frame of the tradition of Advaita Vedanta. In...

Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. Dawson's interests also embraced metaphysics and theology, subjects that he explored in correspondence with a favourite...

them (epistemology), while others address their underlying reality (metaphysics). Certain theories are mutually exclusive, meaning that if one is true...

reflexive relations are distinguished by their structural features. Metaphysical difficulties like the question of where relations are located lie at...

awarded an Sc.D. degree from Cambridge in 1990. His primary work was in metaphysics, although his philosophical interests included philosophy of science...

attempt to combine the materialistic reductionism of science with the metaphysics of their predecessors and with the holistic paradigm of wellness. A 2008...

minor philosopher, and poet. In philosophy, he mostly specialised in metaphysics. Formosa was born in Cospicua, Malta, on March 22, 1869. He studied at...

relationship to other areas of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Central questions posed include whether or not mathematical objects...

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is a treatise on Ātman (Self), includes passages on metaphysics, ethics, and a yearning for knowledge that influenced various Indian...

from the linguistic predication with the notion that a predicable is a metaphysical item and is ontologically predicated of its predicand, usually its subject...

In metaphysics and philosophy of language, the correspondence theory of truth states that the truth or falsity of a statement is determined only by how...

absolute as it affects the various sub-branches of philosophy: ethics, metaphysics and aesthetics. In ethics, Dalton argues that the pursuit of an absolute...

Peter Loptson is a Canadian philosopher whose work spans metaphysics, human nature, and the history of philosophy. He is professor at the University of...

platonist metaphysics of values, complementing the intuitive insight a priori into values. John Niemeyer Findlay, a moral philosophy and metaphysics professor...

'Western metaphysics', much recent scholarship has sought to question whether 'ontotheology' developed at a certain point in the metaphysical tradition...

traditional ideas from the inside out, in metaphysical terms alone.. He did not believe that science and metaphysics were in opposition, but were two different...

University of Colorado, Boulder, best known for his contributions to metaphysics. He has a BA from the University of Toronto and earned his Ph.D. in philosophy...

of Immanuel Kant as well as epistemology, theories of rationality and metaphysics. Willaschek graduated from the Laurentianum grammar school in Arnsberg...

nothing like the sun". The 17th-century and the sometimes so-called metaphysical poets extended the notion of the elaborate metaphor; their idea of conceit...

Melbourne. Kamal's research focuses on existential philosophy, ontology, metaphysics, and Islamic philosophy. He has particular expertise in the philosophical...

inquiry and knowledge. Anti-foundationalism can be metaphysical (positing a ground of being or metaphysical foundation), ethical (positing some value or virtue...

German philosopher Immanuel Kant as part of his work Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. It is part of the first formulation of his categorical imperative...

40 Now efficiency can be considered either as a metaphysical or as a physical property. The metaphysical property is more extensive than the physical for...

the first of an uncompleted trilogy of essays articulating a metaphysics or post-metaphysics of language in and as the name of God, written by Walter Benjamin...

for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of...

scheme—some Scottish universities, for example, divide philosophy into logic, metaphysics, and ethics—but in most universities around the world philosophy is taught...

Truth and Logic, specifically Demonstration of the Impossibility of Metaphysics—later published in Mind under the editorship of G.E. Moore. The title...

Popper's view is that it is indeed useful, because he considers that metaphysical statements can be useful, but also because it is indirectly corroborated...

its early stages, Vaiśeṣika was an independent philosophy with its own metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and soteriology. Over time, the Vaiśeṣika...

false. Alethic thesis: Some moral propositions are true. Metaphysical thesis: The metaphysical status of moral facts is robust and ordinary, not importantly...

philosophical skepticism, he wrote about David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the metaphysics of color, and many other topics. Barry Greenwood Stroud was born on 18...

Blaue Reiter, Cubism, Futurism, Neo-Primitivism, Constructivism, and Metaphysical painting. Kádár was born into a working-class Jewish family. After only...

pessimistic interpretation of the "best of all possible worlds" concept in metaphysics. Von Hartmann was born in Berlin, the son of Prussian Major General Robert...

important figures of recent decades. Lewis is most famous for his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language and semantics, in which his books On the Plurality...

was a major Maltese mediaeval philosopher who specialised mainly in metaphysics, physics, and logic. Parnis was born at Mdina, Malta, in 1695. He began...

known as Doppio Sogno di Primavera, 1915) is a painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. It is held at the Museum of Modern Art, in...

the course of his life after being deeply moved and concerned by the Metaphysics of Aristotle and studying it for over a year. According to Henry Corbin...

Religious tourism, spiritual tourism, sacred tourism, or faith tourism, is a type of tourism with two main subtypes: pilgrimage, meaning travel for religious...

Substance is a key concept in ontology, the latter in turn part of metaphysics, which may be classified into monist, dualist, or pluralist varieties...

Forrest as "a form of psychological astrology which is integrated with metaphysics. Where a twentieth century psychological astrologer might focus on the...

concerned with metaphysics, the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics. She has authored papers on feminist metaphysics such as The...

FAHA (1938 – 12 October 2024) was an Australian philosopher working in metaphysics. With D. M. Armstrong, Campbell was one of the founders of so-called...

the history of Western Civilization, in the philosophical fields of metaphysics and epistemology, as well as in theology and science. The study of natural...

and existence are not distinguished. Simplicity denies any physical or metaphysical composition in the divine being. God is the divine nature itself, with...

Memory wheels or combinatory wheels are mnemonic, metaphysical, symbolic, and concept-generative devices first developed in 1582 by Renaissance philosopher...

identifies the supreme reality with Shiva rather than Vishnu, and its metaphysical framework draws more directly from Shaiva Agamas than from the Vedanta...

principle (BLP) is a general principle that limits our explanations metaphysically or epistemologically, and which normally goes unquestioned or even unnoticed...

(born 1943) is an American philosopher, known primarily for his work on metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. Heil is Professor of Philosophy at the Washington...

of her brother, followed him through suicide in 1891. Working in the metaphysical framework of Schopenhauer, Mainländer sees the "will" as the innermost...

the "idiom of philosophers" and analyzes the modes using Aristotle's Metaphysics. He distinguished the vocal sign from the signifying value, called with...

determine which synthetic a priori propositions are true, he argues, then metaphysics as a discipline is impossible. The remainder of the Critique of Pure...

"Philoponus". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Archived from the original on 22 August...

focused on developing a systematic and coherent account of the logic, metaphysics, and epistemology implicit in contemporary understanding of the world...

at Princeton University. She specialized in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic. Fara's mother was African-American and her...

philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, but also contributed to ornithology. He developed the neoclassical idea...

cats. The book incorporates themes of music as a communicative conduit, metaphysics, dreams, fate, and the subconscious. After the release of the book, Murakami...

Church and State, metaphysics, and theology. He is considered the godfather of international law. His Disputationes metaphysicae (Metaphysical Disputations)...

In metaphysics, Plato's beard is a paradoxical argument dubbed by Willard Van Orman Quine in his 1948 paper "On What There Is". The phrase came to be...

contributions to philosophy in the fields of philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation...

philosopher and educator. He is known for his original synthesis of Thomistic metaphysics with the thought of Martin Heidegger and G. W. F. Hegel, centered on...

Orthodox when he was twenty-one. His academic works focus on Christian metaphysics, philosophy of mind, Indian and East Asian religion, Asian languages...

The following excerpt may be representative of Plato's middle period metaphysics and epistemology: [Socrates] "Since the beautiful is the opposite of...

"Occasionalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2024-12-22 Griffel, Frank...

Jonathan Moshe Schaffer is an American philosopher specializing in metaphysics and also working in epistemology, mind, and language. He is best known...

The works of the metaphysical poet and politician Andrew Marvell consists of lyric poems, Latin poems, and political and satirical pamphlets, many printed...

sensibility is a literary term first used by T. S. Eliot in his essay "The Metaphysical Poets." It refers to a way that, in Eliot's judgment, intellectual thought...

Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and...

"on the table", "in the room" and "being bigger than other apples". Metaphysical frameworks also differ in whether they consider objects existing independently...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 29 January 2026. Parent, Ted. "Modal Metaphysics". Internet Encyclopedia...

an indivisible origin and equivalent comparators. In the Neoplatonic metaphysics of Proclus, reality is organized in a fractal-like structure, where the...

March 2005) was a Spanish philosopher interested in phenomenology and metaphysics, who published many books and articles. He discovered his vocation to...

Enlightenment. Rediscovered in 1862, he was hailed as a precursor of Hegel. His metaphysical system anticipates Hegel by asserting that truth includes contradictory...

Conceptual Truth: Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics, OUP, 2015 McLear, Colin (25 October 2015). "Review of The Poverty of...

An accident (Greek συμβεβηκός), in metaphysics and philosophy, is a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance...

single equation but a comprehensive conceptual structure that integrates metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of science into a coherent...

advocating common-sense concepts and contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. He was said to have had an "exceptional personality and moral character"...

inspired him to take falsifiability as his criterion of demarcation between metaphysics and science: a law should be considered scientific if, and only if, it...

concepts. Crispin Wright said that "Quietism is the view that significant metaphysical debate is impossible." It has been described as "the view or stance that...

College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He won the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1994 for Radical...

Extended modal realism is a metaphysical theory developed by Takashi Yagisawa. It concerns the question of what it means that something is possible or...

2022) was a British pornographic film actress who later worked as a metaphysical counselor and mentor. She was the author of an autobiography Taboo: Sacred...

responds, "the life of the ordinary guy: forget philosophers and their metaphysics." Tiresias appears in Dante's Inferno, in Canto XX, among the soothsayers...

April 16, 2024) was an American analytic philosopher. He specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy...

magnum opus, La Dialectique de l'éternel présent (1922), is a systematic metaphysical work. Lavelle's other principal works include De l'Être (1928), De l'Acte...

epistemology. In addition to epistemology, Sosa has also written on metaphysics, modern philosophy and philosophy of mind. In his books Knowledge in...

Explanation in Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1994) Aristotle on Meaning and Essence (2000) (co-editor with Michael Frede) Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book Lambda, (2000)...

simply as Song, is a poem by John Donne, one of the leading English metaphysical poets. Probably first passed round in manuscript during the final decade...

of his career. His primary research interests include epistemology, metaphysics, meta-ethics and the philosophy of mind. In the latter field he is best...

Moors is a professor of Philosophy and is the Chair of Contemporary Metaphysics at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven...

He began his academic career in medieval studies, but evolved into metaphysics, aesthetics, and ontology, making his mark in the field as someone who...

University and is well known for his contributions to philosophy of mind and metaphysics. Shoemaker graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College and earned...

distinguished from what is often termed the "metaphysical" mode of thought. As described by Friedrich Engels, the metaphysical approach considers objects and ideas...

Professors remember that they cannot set St. Thomas aside, especially in metaphysical questions, without grave detriment." On 1 September 1910 Pius X addressed...

In metaphysics, quidditism is the perspective implied by the belief that nomological roles do not supervene on causal properties. Quidditism endorses...

behind the Quartet in terms of a convergence of Eastern and Western metaphysics, based on Einstein's overturning of the old view of the material universe...

history of metaphysics" in philosophy. Derrida argues that, just as philosophers use metaphysical terms and concepts to critique metaphysics (and criticize...

republican theory was extended in Doctrine of Right (1797), the first part of Metaphysics of Morals. At the end of the 20th century Kant's political philosophy...

BC) and Plato's dialogue Timaeus (c. 360 BC). Aristotle's tractate on metaphysics claims to demonstrate the necessary existence of an unmoved prime mover...

"humanity" should be rejected as historically relative, ideological or metaphysical. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, the philosophy of humanism was...

Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 ed.). Stanford University: The Metaphysics Research Lab (published November 3, 2017). ISSN 1095-5054. Retrieved...

priest of the Diocese of Steubenville. He was a leading authority on the metaphysical thought of Thomas Aquinas. He won the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International...

George Berkeley in the 18th century developed subjective idealism, a metaphysical theory to respond to these questions, coined famously as "to be is to...

at the University of Oxford, where he has the title of Professor of Metaphysics, and a Tutorial Fellow at Oriel College. Rodriguez-Pereyra has previously...

especially I. Leclerc's Whitehead's Metaphysics. An Introductory Exposition. Whitehead often speaks of the metaphysics of Process and Reality as 'the philosophy...

In philosophy, specifically in the area of metaphysics, counterpart theory (CT) is an alternative to standard (Kripkean) possible-worlds semantics for...

book favors faith over philosophy in matters specifically concerning metaphysics or knowledge of the divine. In July 1091, at the invitation of Nizam...

Questions of Metaphysics in Association with Speculation) (1840). Other noted works by Merten include: Grundriss der Metaphysik, (Outline of metaphysics); 1848...

(2021). "Abu Bakr al-Razi". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved 4 November 2024. Adamson...

Nodelman, Uri (eds.), "Set Theory", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved May 9, 2026 Ferreirós, José...

slowly decaying mental state, in a backdrop of Baroque-era science, metaphysics, and cosmology. Roberto della Griva, a 17th-century Italian nobleman...

the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics". The Review of Metaphysics. 70 (4): 785–786. ISSN 0034-6632. Ney, Alyssa (2017-11-01). "Finding the Metaphysics Within...

after rejecting the scholastic tradition and replacing Aristotelian metaphysics, along with those of the dogmatic churchmen, with Kantian rationalism...

to spread information about Malamati Sufism and Wahdat al-Wujud Sufi metaphysics throughout North Africa. His tracts concerned Islamic mysticism, theology...