The history of metaphysics examines how theories about the most general features of reality ("metaphysics") have developed throughout history. Cognitive...
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Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features...
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Philosophical realism (redirect from History of metaphysical realism)
of positions within epistemology and metaphysics which express that a given thing instead exists independently of knowledge, thought, or understanding...
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overview of and topical guide to metaphysics: Metaphysics – traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and...
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Doctor of Metaphysics, also called a Metaphysical Science Doctorate, is a purported academic degree. While mainstream universities teach metaphysics as a...
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element of a structure which appears given or fixed, thereby anchoring the rest of the structure and allowing it to play. In the history of metaphysics specifically...
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ethics History of normative ethics History of meta-ethics History of humanism History of logic History of metaphysics History of transhumanism History of Western...
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Metaphysics of presence (German: Metaphysik der Anwesenheit) is a view held by Martin Heidegger in Being and Time that holds the entire history of Western...
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influence of philosophical inquiry waned, partly due to Al-Ghazali's critique of philosophy. In the 17th century, Mulla Sadra developed a metaphysical system...
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Islamic philosophy (redirect from Islamic metaphysics)
interpretations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) from the standpoint of Heidegger's critique of the history of metaphysics, and specifically against the background of the unfolding...
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Différance (redirect from Metaphysics of differance)
importantly, an attempt to escape the history of metaphysics; a history that has always prioritised certain concepts, e.g., those of substance, essence, soul, spirit...
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Jean Grondin (category Metaphysics writers)
and the history of metaphysics. After completing his philosophical studies at the University of Montreal, he wrote a thesis on the concept of truth in...
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Metaphysics (Greek: των μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops...
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The Metaphysics of Morals (German: Die Metaphysik der Sitten) is a 1797 work of political and moral philosophy by Immanuel Kant. It is also Kant's last...
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In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal...
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Dasein (category Philosophy of Martin Heidegger)
disclosed by positive science or in the history of metaphysics. "Scientific research is not the only manner of Being which this entity can have, nor is...
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Jacques Derrida (redirect from Of Spirit)
the West, such as this history can be represented by the history of metaphysics and metaphysics in its most modern, critical and vigilant form: Husserl's...
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The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised...
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Quaestio (redirect from Quaestio: Journal of the History of Metaphysics)
peer-reviewed open access academic journal of philosophy with a particular emphasis on the history of metaphysics. it was established in 2002 and is published...
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more closely to a metaphysics (or anti-metaphysics) of determining forces like language or the phenomenology of perception at the level of background assumptions...
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Philosophy (redirect from History of Western thought)
government, and self-cultivation. Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and...
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In metaphysics, a universal is what particular things have in common, namely characteristics or qualities. In other words, universals are repeatable or...
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John M. Rist (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada)
scholar of ancient philosophy, classics, and early Christian philosophy and theology, known mainly for his contributions to the history of metaphysics and...
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ISBN 978-0-19-923581-0. Little, Daniel (2020). "Philosophy of History". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved...
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Ontology (redirect from Metaphysics Ontology)
study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality. As one of the most...
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the necessary ills of machination, the gigantic, and calculation, which, out of the history of metaphysics, reduce the question of be-ing to the belief...
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the history of Western thought can be seen as the history of metaphysics. Moreover, because metaphysics has forgotten to ask about the notion of Being...
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Adrian William Moore (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
Wittgenstein, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic and language, ethics and philosophy of religion. A. W...
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as a violation of the moral law. In the Metaphysics of Morals (1797) he made the a posteriori argument that 'such an unnatural use of one's sexual attributes'...
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Falk (2016). "The "Subtle" Materialism of August Wilhelm Hupel". Quaestio: Journal of the History of Metaphysics. 16: 147–165. doi:10.1484/J.QUAESTIO.5...
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