Metaphysics Summary

Event Theory An event is anything that happens, an occurrence. The idea of an event began to take on a philosophical life of its own in the twentieth century, due to a reawakening of interest in the c... Read more

Metaphysics and Epistemology In traditional Chinese philosophy, epistemology was not an explicitly developed discipline, even if Chinese philosophers since ancient times were interested in problems re... Read more

Metaphysics, History of [addendum] The Critique of Metaphysics In the years just before and after World War II a decidedly negative attitude toward metaphysics pervaded the analytic tradition. Before ... Read more

Metaphysics, Nature of [addendum] What is metaphysics? An answer to this question requires a specification both of the scope of metaphysics—that is, of the nature of the questions that metaphys... Read more

In the following essay, Owens studies how Medieval metaphysicians interpreted Aristotle's Metaphysics. Owens observes that the two apparently contradictory notions of being identified in Metaph... Read more