Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.34.2.0179 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jspecphil.34.2.0179 Copy URL Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals and ...

CRITICAL philosophy or metaphysics Mr. Read divides into two branches, the metaphysics of nature and science and the metaphysics of ideals. In this work he deals only with the former branch, and only ...

First year graduate seminar, Fall 2006. Open only to first-year philosophy graduate students. Participants will be expected to make two presentations during the semester. Adam Elga (follow link for ...

THERE is a possible misconception in the application of the term “metaphysical” to the new principle of relativity which it is advisable to clear up. In the great era of the triumphant advance of the ...

A reply to the following objection: "The abundance (overcoming scarcity) is impossible since we live in a world with limited resources, not only economically, but physically, so overcoming scarcity is ...

This article seeks to advance a Thomistic metaphysics of creation in light of certain claims made by Stephen Hawking on the beginninglessness of the universe. I start with an exploration of Hawking's ...

EVERY age in history has its own ideas about what makes up the universe. “Questions about what kinds of things exist go all the way back to the earliest philosophical texts,” says Jan Westerhoff, a ...

IT COST more than $13 billion and took 14 years, but eventually, as expected, God showed up. The joy and relief were immense. That was in 2012, and the evidence has only become stronger. Disbelief is ...