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 ...

LILLE, FRANCE - JUNE 14: A Russian journalist (R) argues with an England fan who had pretended to wipe his bottom with a Russian flag as English and Welsh fans chant and drink outside a pub as they ...

Pregnancy is astonishing; it’s just that no-one has noticed. Well, that’s not entirely true, but in the exacting world of analytic philosophy, the idea of one becoming two hasn’t quite taken hold.

Metaphysics explores fundamental questions about reality, existence, and being, primarily through abstract thought and reasoning. Metaphysics should be distinguished from philosophy. While metaphysics ...

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, ...

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 ...

Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...