“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 ...

The idea that an a priori metaphysics must first provide a conceptual framework for science to work at all, to be able to reveal truths about reality, is, as the philosopher Don Ross has aptly put it, ...

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 ...

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Sydney). https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...