The paper examines the fortunes of Aristotelian metaphysics in science and the philosophy of science. It considers the Enlightenment claim that such a metaphysics is fundamentally unscientific, and that its abandonment was essential to the scientific revolution. The history of the scientific revolution and the metaphysical debates involved in it is examined, and it is argued that the eclipse of...

What is “Formal Epistemology”? Not sure, really. I first heard the term from Sahotra Sarkar in 2003 . It seems that it is quite a broad field, which includes: Ampliative inference (including inductive logic); Game theory and decision theory; Formal learning theory; Formal theories of coherence: Foundations of probability and statistics; Formal approaches to paradoxes of belief and/or act...

Abstract This article offers a reading of the “transcendental” character Alain Badiou’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ontologies. While neither Badiou nor Agamben are philosophers in Kantian sense, this argues that their respective projects ontology both recover aspects “classical” conception transcendentals. Not unlike how pre-modern conceived oneness, truth goodness as transcendental properties all t...

This article deals with Ibn Sīnā’s criticisms of Aristotle regarding what the place God should be in science metaphysics. From Aristotle’s point view, existence is proved by proof motion physics and held as a subject matter that comes after physics, which According to him, metaphysics most sublime because its matter. The striking criticism against conception was put forward Sīnā. important prob...

When I say that my conception of metaphysics is Aristotelian, or neo-Aristotelian, this may have more to do with Aristotle’s philosophical methodology than his metaphysics, but, as I see it, the core of this Aristotelian conception of metaphysics is the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. In what follows I will attempt to clarify what this conception of metaphysics amounts to in the ...

Epistemology is the discipline which analyzes the limits of knowledge while asserting universal principles for any particular discipline. Metaphysics is the discipline which attempts to discern the essence of what really exists while asserting particular means for the implementation of universals. In a sense, epistemology and metaphysics are companions. Epistemology is theoretical while metaphy...

Problem of Ethical Metaphysics,” I promise to show how Kierkegaard provides a solution to ethical problems raised by the intersection of Levinas and Kant. This same solution, I hope to argue elsewhere, appears implicitly in the subtext of Plato’s Republic and in a few other key places in the history of Western philosophy. The unfinished paper below is a start in the direction of an answer on be...