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 ...

Spinoza's philosophy, particularly his metaphysical ideas, has been a subject of extensive scholarly research and debate. His work, especially in "Ethics," presents a unique perspective on the ...

If Henri Bergson were alive, or even remembered, they would get more. In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first ...

What is there, really? Both metaphysics and philosophy of science, as fields within philosophy, endeavor to answer this question. But they differ, often starkly, in key regards: how precisely to ...

How should we understand and explain this difference between things with minds and things without? This is the central question of the metaphysics of mind. Increasingly, philosophers who engage with ...

In 2023 I completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford under Tim Williamson and Alex Paseau, working on the logic and metaphysics of necessity. Before that I did a BPhil in Philosophy at Oxford and a ...

With this weapon, they hoped to dismiss all metaphysical questions as not merely false but nonsense. These days, logical positivism is almost universally rejected by philosophers. For one thing ...