The paper first sketches out a reply to the underdetermination challenge and the incommensurability challenge that rebuts the sceptical conclusions of these challenges and that is sufficient to lay the ground for the project of a metaphysics of nature. That metaphysics is as hypothetical as are our scientific theories. The paper then explains how can one can argue for certain views in the metap...

In this paper, the authors describe their initial investigations in computational metaphysics. Our method is to implement axiomatic metaphysics in an automated reasoning system. In this paper, we describe what we have discovered when the theory of abstract objects is implemented in prover9 (a first-order automated reasoning system which is the successor to otter). After reviewing the second-ord...

In this paper, the authors describe their initial investigations in computational metaphysics. Our method is to implement axiomatic metaphysics in an automated reasoning system. In this paper, we describe what we have discovered when the theory of abstract objects is implemented in prover9 (a first-order automated reasoning system which is the successor to otter). After reviewing the second-ord...

Abstract I explore the view that metaphysics is essentially imaginative. argue central goal of on this understanding, not truth. Metaphysics- as-essentially-imaginative provides novel answers to challenges both value and epistemic status metaphysics.

The aim of this article is to trace the origins some key concepts Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics and cosmology in earlier Andalusian Sufi masters. Within context seminal works on produced from second half 20th century onwards through a comparison texts by masters Masarra Barraj?n, we will see which elements are taken previous sources how they transformed or re-interpreted ?Arab? philosophical-mystical...

The apparent chasm between two camps in metaphysics, analytic metaphysics and scientific is well recognized. I argue that the relationship them not necessarily a rivalry; division of labour resembles pure mathematics science possible. As case study, look into metaphysical underdetermination argument for ontic structural realism, well-known position together with an known as ontological nihilism...

Abstract Naturalized metaphysics aims to establish justified metaphysical claims, where is meant carry its usual significance, while avoiding the traditional methods of metaphysics—a priori reasoning, conceptual analysis, intuitions, and common sense—which naturalized argues are not epistemically probative. After offering an explication what it means do metaphysics, this paper that at outset, h...

Th ere are, I believe, fi ve main features that serve to distinguish traditional metaphysics from other forms of enquiry. Th ese are: the aprioricity of its methods; the generality of its subject-matter; the transparency or ‘ non-opacity’ of its concepts; its eidicity or concern with the nature of things; and its role as a foundation for what there is. In claiming that these are distinguishing ...