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 ...

This paper argues that, despite appearances to the contrary, Kant and contemporary analytic metaphysicians are interested in the same kind of metaphysical dependence relation that finds application in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – If life is a closed system, with no afterlife offering the possibility of either misery or bliss, then death should be the ultimate protection from harm. But David Boonin a professor ...

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 ...

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 ...