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 ...

(with J. Cumpa) Metaphysical Fundamentals, issue of American Philosophical Quarterly (2014), pp. 98. Articles by Amie Thomasson, Lynne Rudder Baker, Jorge Gracia ...

Ilario Colli is an Italian-Australian philosopher and author based in New York City, and he has embarked on an audacious intellectual mission. Colli—a former classical music journalist turned ...

Vol. 43, No. 1/2, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Responses to A. W. Moore with His Replies (SPRING/FALL 2015), pp. 27-52 (26 pages) In this paper I offer a discussion of chapter 3 of Adrian ...

Philosophy of science is often dismissed as useless by practicing scientists. From young researchers scrambling to get tenure or finish a dissertation, to industry scientists buried under a mountain ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Postmodernism in philosophy holds that traditional philosophy has come (or should come) to an end, and that it must be succeeded by something ...

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What is language? What is beauty? Who gets to decide? Philosophers have grappled with these questions for centuries, and they've generated a pile of long (and often tortured) books in their efforts to ...