Sep 10, 2007 · Ancient and Medieval philosophers might have said that metaphysics was, like chemistry or astrology, to be defined by its subject-matter: metaphysics was the “science” that studied “being …

Oct 8, 2000 · But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as ‘metaphysics’; the name was evidently coined by the first century C.E. editor who assembled the …

May 18, 2004 · In 1903, Bergson published, in the prestigious Revue de métaphysique et de morale, an article entitled “Introduction to Metaphysics” (later reproduced as the centerpiece of The Creative …

Oct 15, 2012 · This thesis is the hallmark of speculative process metaphysics, which has a number of adherents also among later process philosophers but has been championed most explicitly by Alfred …

Jun 9, 2003 · Metaphysics, or alternatively ontology, is that branch of philosophy whose special concern is to answer the question ‘What is there?’ These expressions derive from Aristotle, Plato's student.

Jul 5, 2012 · A conception of metaphysics that limits its scope to philosophical theology and minimizes the relevance of ontological concerns is particularly apt to underscore its compatibility with Islam.

The history of metaphysics, Heidegger notes, has presented us with a sequence of quite distinct historical “interpretations” or “determinations” of the essence of human being, each of which …

Jan 31, 2025 · Metaphysics, as Heidegger puts it, thinks of truth “in the already derivative form of the truth of cognitive knowledge and the truth of propositions that formulate such knowledge” (GA9: 370).

He comes back to it as one possibility of explicating propositions in §19 of Introduction to Semantics (Carnap 1942), and in Meaning and Necessity, again with reference to the Tractatus.

In what van Inwagen, Sullivan, and Bernstein dub “the ‘new’ metaphysics”, these categories include modality, space and time, persistence and constitution, causation, freedom and determinism, the …