On the Popular Study of Metaphysics

The Influence of Ibn Sìnå on Gadr ad-Dìn Qinawì and His Followers

This article is an investigation into the nature of the Sufi metaphysics of Gadr ad-Dìn Qinawì and his followers. In contrast to previous scholars, who have considered Qinawì to be dismissive of philosophy in a way similar to Ghazålì, the author shows that in fact philosophical metaphysics, and in particular the formulations of Ibn Sìnå, had a great impact on Qinawì and his followers in the sch...

Sir William Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics *Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic. By Sir William Hamilton, Bart. Edited by the Rev. R. L. Mansel, B.D., and John Veitch, M.A. Vols. I. and II. Metaphysics. William Blackwood and Sons. 1859.

From the vagueness and uncertainty of tlie meaning attached to the term metaphysics by various writers, and especially in popular estimation, it has been too frequently held as synonymous witlx all that is incomprehensible and unpractical; as something, the ultimate result of which could but be to bewilder and mislead. In some of the recognised acceptations of the term, perhaps this view may no...

Overcoming of Metaphysics: Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant's Thought and the Problem of Metaphysics

The Metaphor of Vision and the Construction of Sexist-Norms in Western Metaphysics

Current feminisms have emphasized the systematic nature of women’s oppression. Feminist scholars like Luce Irigaray insist that woman’s difference and otherness is a matter of male-dominated institutional definition: because the woman is theoretically subordinated to the concept of masculinity, she is seen and objectified by the man as his opposite, described as an absence, a lack, and, most no...

The Metaphysical Status of Logic

The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of logic from a metaphysical point of view – what is logic grounded in and what is its relationship with metaphysics. There are three general lines that we can take. 1) Logic and metaphysics are not continuous, neither discipline has no bearing on the other one. This seems to be a rather popular approach, at least implicitly, as philosophers of...