As the saying goes, the intention behind an act is as significant as the action itself. This explains why it is not ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. The Knowledge Encyclopedia reads: ...

Few persons, with any pretensions to a knowledge of the metaphysicians of the century, are unacquainted with Sir William Hamilton. His articles in the “ Edinburgh Review ” on Cousin and Dr. Brown, and ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.34.2.0179 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jspecphil.34.2.0179 Copy URL Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals and ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

Source: Unknown internet meme origin (posted by Philip Goff) As a philosopher of science, I have some minor obligation to say something when other philosophers share harmful misinformation about how ...

Source: Image created with Chat-GPT Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic ...

During World War II the Allied forces in Europe had trouble maintaining a staff of cryptographers. There were few who could do the difficult work of deciphering enemy codes. Some got killed and others ...

“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...