The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The Knowledge Encyclopedia reads: ...

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 ...

Source: Image created with Chat-GPT Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic ...

“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 ...

As long as we believe that illusions are reality, we are controlled by those who manipulate the collective illusions that structure the economic norms of the world as we know it. The other day I was ...

The harsh answer is “it has none”. Your life may feel like a big deal to you, but it’s actually a random blip of matter and energy in an uncaring and impersonal universe. When it ends, a few people ...