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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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This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in non-analytic traditions. In its unusually wide range, A. W. Moore's study refutes the tired old cliché that there is some unbridgeable gulf between analytic philosophy and philosophy of other kinds. It also advances its own distinctive and compelling conception of what metaphysics is and why it matters. Moore explores how metaphysics can help us to cope with continually changing demands on our humanity by making sense of things in ways that are radically new.

Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Modern --- Modern philosophy --- History --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie moderne --- History. --- Histoire --- Metaphysics. --- Metaphysik. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy