Metaphysics

Editorial Essays

• A Lecture on the Good [44.4K]

• The Metaphysics of Nothing [21.7K]

• What Would God Be? -- with a natural history of the gods [42.2K]
  • God as Love
  • God after Kant [40.0K]

• Substance and Essence [21.8K]

• The Perfect Fallacy, a Bias in Classical Metaphysics [48.9K]

• A Metaphysic of the Forces of Nature in Multiple Dimensions [21.1K]

• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) [105.3K]
  • The Most Knowable and the Most Real
  • Kant's Transcenental Idealism
  • The Clarke-Leibniz Debate (1715-1716) [34.6K]
  • Three Points in Kant's Theory of Space and Time
    • Kant's First Antinomy, of Space and Time
  • Kantian Quantum Mechanics [41.8K]
    • Richard Feynman's Quantum Mechanics

• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) [20.6K]

• A New Kant-Friesian System of Metaphysics [33.0K]
  • Note on Tense and Aspect
    • Note on Greek Tenses
  • Childhood's End, the Mystery of Order [29.7K]
  • Cause and Purpose, The World Turned Inside Out [33.3K]
    • Free Will
  • The Foundations of Value, Part III, Metaphysical Issues: The Theory of the Good [57.9K]
  • Ontological Undecidability [63.0K]
    • §1. Introduction
    • §2. On Method
    • §3. Kant's Ontological Undecidability
    • §4. The Problem of Knowledge
    • §5. The Conflict of Fundamental Beliefs
    • §6. Epistemological Priority and Intentionality
    • §7. Ontological Undecidability
    • §8. The Two Perspectives of Undecidable Ontology
    • §9. Hallucination and Truth
    • §10. Conclusion
  • Meaning and the Problem of Universals, A Kant-Friesian Approach [51.9K]
    • Note on Nelson's Axiomatic Diagrams
  • Meaning and Naming in Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny's Language and Reality, MIT Press, 1999 [23.2K]
  • What Would God Be? -- with a natural history of the gods [42.2K]
    • God as Love
  • Thought Experiments on the Soul [44.3K]
  • The "Need to Know" and the Meaning of Life [22.2K]
  • The Emotions [16.9K]
  • The Ontology and Cosmology of Non-Euclidean Geometry [43.4K]
    • §1. Introduction
    • §2. Curved Space and Non-Euclidean Geometry
    • §3. Geometry in Einstein's Theory of Relativity
    • §4. Conclusion
    • §5. Postscript, 1999
  • Note on the Metaphysic of Space [41.8K]
  • Time Travel Paradoxes [7.0K]
  • Imaginary Numbers [15.0K]

• Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) [16.4K]

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) [26.1K]

Reviews

• Palle Yourgrau, A World Without Time, The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein, Basic Books, 2005 [4.9K]

• Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Jerrold J. Katz, Oxford, 2004 [25.5K]

• Meaning and Naming in Michael Devitt and Kim Sterelny's Language and Reality, MIT Press, 1999 [0.0K]

• The Rediscovery of the Mind, John R. Searle, the MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992 [40.5K]

• The Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold J. Katz, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990 [13.9K]

• Note on "Form and Cognition: How to Go Out of Your Mind," Jonathan Jacobs & John Zeis, The Monist, vol. 80, no. 4, October, 1997, pp. 539-557 [9.8K]

Contributed Essays

• Metaphysics and the Question of Animal Intelligence in the Thought of Descartes, by Dennis W. Jowers [24.0K]

• On Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics, by Harold Ravitch, Ph.D. [2.2K]

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