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This volume investigates the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.

Metaphysics --- Ontology --- Ontologie --- Métaphysique --- Congresses. --- Congrès

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The short aporetic essay On First Principles by Theophrastus, thought to have been transmitted as his Metaphysics , is critically edited for the first time on the basis of all the available evidence—the Greek manuscripts and the medieval Arabic and Latin translations—together with an introduction, English translation, extensive commentary, and a diplomatic edition of the medieval Latin translation. This book equally contributes to Graeco-Arabic studies as ancilla of classical studies, and includes the first critical edition of the Arabic translation with an English translation and commentary, a detailed excursus on the editorial technique for Greek texts which medieval Arabic translations are extant as well as for the Arabic translations themselves, and a complete Greek and Arabic glossary as a blueprint for future lexica.

Metaphysics --- Theophrastus. --- Métaphysique --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Metaphysics - Early works to 1800.

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Robert Pasnau tells a continuous story about the development of philosophy from the late Middle Ages into the early modern era of the 17th century. The focus is questions in metaphysics concerning the nature of matter and the structure of the material world.

Metaphysics --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Métaphysique --- Substance (Philosophie) --- History. --- Histoire --- History --- Metaphysics - History --- Philosophy

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On avait proclamé la métaphysique archaïque ou dépassée. En fait, elle n’est jamais « morte ». Elle connaît même un renouveau international considérable, dont on est loin en France d’avoir pris encore la mesure. Parce qu’elle s’interroge, de la manière la plus générale et la plus précise à la fois, sur « ce qu’il y a », elle est essentielle à toute entreprise de connaissance, entendue non comme la reconnaissance de vérités éternelles mais comme une enquête sur le monde et la réalité. Aux antipodes du spiritualisme obscurantiste comme du relativisme postmoderne, Claudine Tiercelin expose ici le programme d’une métaphysique scientifique et réaliste, ancrée dans la tradition rationaliste. Metaphysics has been proclaimed to be archaic or outdated. Actually, it never “died”. It has even experienced considerable revival throughout the world, which in France we have yet to fully appreciate. Because, in both the most general and the most precise ways, it questions “what there is”, it is essential to any knowledge-related undertaking, in the sense not of a recognition of eternal truths but of an enquiry on the world and on reality. In this lecture Claudine Tiercelin sets out the programme of a scientific and realist metaphysics rooted in the rationalist tradition and diametrically opposed to obscurantist spiritualism and post-modern relativism.

Metaphysics. --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Speculative Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Métaphysique --- connaissance --- philosophie --- métaphysique

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What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason for this failure and explains why we should limit ourselves to examples involving real organisms rather than thought experiments. This book explores and resolves paradoxes that arise when one applies past notions of individuality to biological examples beyond the conventional range and presents an analysis of identity and persistence. The book's main purpose is to bring together two lines of research, theoretical biology and metaphysics, which have dealt with the same subject in isolation from one another. Wilson explains an alternative theory about biological individuality which solves problems which cannot be addressed by either field alone. He presents a more fine-grained vocabulary of individuation based on diverse kinds of living things, allowing him to clarify previously muddled disputes about individuality in biology.

Metaphysics --- Biology --- Individuality. --- Philosophy. --- Biologie --- Individualité --- Philosophie --- Philosophy --- Individuality --- Arts and Humanities --- Individu (métaphysique) --- Individu (métaphysique)