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 ...

(with J. Cumpa) Metaphysical Fundamentals, issue of American Philosophical Quarterly (2014), pp. 98. Articles by Amie Thomasson, Lynne Rudder Baker, Jorge Gracia ...

“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...

Vol. 73, No. 3, Special Issue: Philosophy of Jan Patočka: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (September 2021), pp. 271-286 (16 pages) This paper explores the theme of sacrifice as it appears in the ...

Stephen Hawking was perfectly in line with the ancient philosophers when he acknowledged that physics points to the deeper questions of metaphysics. Indeed, when questions stop becoming scientific, ...

Sir Peter Strawson, emeritus Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy, has shaped the development in philosophy for over forty-five ...

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 71, Fasc. 2/3, Metafísica: Perspectivas Históricas e seus Actores / Metaphysics: Historical Perspectives and its Actors (2015), pp. 267-286 (20 pages) Não há dúvida ...

What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...