The relationship between metaphysics and science has recently become the focus of increased attention. Ladyman and Ross, in particular, have accused even naturalistically inclined metaphysicians of pursuing little more than the philosophy of A-level chemistry and have suggested that analytic metaphysics should simply be discontinued. We shall by contrast argue, fi rst of all, that even metaphys...

Critics of contemporary metaphysics argue that it attempts to do the hard work of science from the ease of the armchair. Physics, not metaphysics, tells us about the fundamental facts of the world, and empirical psychology is best placed to reveal the content of our concepts about the world. Exploring and understanding the world through metaphysical reflection is obsolete. In this paper, I will...

Our work aims to analyze Hegel's critique on the Kantian antinomies in his Wissenchaft de Logik. For Hegel, the metaphysics that presents the true nature of things is the metaphysics of contradiction. By identifying his Logic with this metaphysics, he intended to present in this work the immanent determinations to thought, hence the denomination logic of contradiction. On this account, he will ...

There are writers in both metaphysics and algorithmic information theory (AIT) who seem to think that the latter could provide a formal theory of the former. This paper is intended as a step in that direction. It demonstrates how AIT might be used to define basic metaphysical notions such as object and property for a simple, idealized world. The extent to which these definitions capture intuiti...

Abstract Since the last decades of twentieth and beginning twenty-first century, use metaphysics by philosophers when approaching conceptual problems in biology has increased. Some call this tendency philosophy ‘Metaphysics Biology’ (Guay Pradeu Synthese 1–20, 2017). In paper, I aim at characterizing Metaphysics Biology paying attention to diverse ways addressing biology. will claim that there ...

The Heideggerian account of the ontotheological constitution of Western metaphysics has been extremely influential for contemporary philosophy of religion and for philosophical perspectives on theology and the divine. This paper introduces and contrasts two central strategies for approaching the question of the divine in a nonor post-ontotheological manner. The first and more established approa...

The paper argues that metaphysics depends upon science when it comes to claims about the constitution of the real world. That thesis is illustrated by considering the examples of global supervenience, the tenseless vs. the tensed theory of time and existence, events vs. substances, and relations vs. intrinsic properties. An argument is sketched out for a metaphysics of a fourdimensional block u...

for “Two Accounts of Laws and Time” Among the most important questions in the metaphysics of science are “What are the natures of fundamental laws and chances?” and “What grounds the direction of time? My aim in this paper is to examine some connections between these questions, discuss two approaches to answering them and argue in favor of one. Along the way I will raise and comment on a number...