Nietzsche was one of the most prominent figures of the 20th century. First considered as an artist, he was then first treated as a philosopher by Heidegger. Nietzsche is often said to represent a turning point in modern philosophy, the culmination but also the end of western philosophy. Can then Nietzsche be seen as the first post-modern philosopher? To what extent does he represent the post-mo...

Applied metaphysics, which contains the knowledge of objects a priori, makes a system out of pure reason, and that system of pure rational knowledge is called metaphysics in the strict sense. Transcendental philosophy is the propaedeutic of metaphysics proper. Reason determines nothing [in metaphysics proper] but rather speaks always of only its own ability, and in metaphysics proper it makes u...

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...

Philosophy of science has a complicated – almost schizophrenic – relationship with metaphysics. Studying topics such as the nature of causation, laws of nature, and spacetime, it clearly engages in activities that deserve to be classified as metaphysics. Yet the academic discipline itself was born in opposition to the field. Carnap, Reichenbach, Feigl, Neurath, and Popper, for example, were uni...

This essay aims to redress the contention that epistemic possibility cannot be a guide to the principles of modal metaphysics. I argue that the interaction between the multi-dimensional intensional framework and intensional plural quantification enables epistemic possibilities to target the haecceitistic properties of individuals. I outline the elements of plural logic, and I specify, then, a m...

Kant’s claim that time is a subjective form of intuition was first proposed in his Inaugural Dissertation “De mundi sensibilis atque intelligibilis forma et principiis” of , which he delivered upon being appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the university of Königsberg. It is in this dissertation that Kant for the first time puts forward his startling claim that time is not objec...

In this report we present an introductory overview of ontological engineering from the informatics (computer science) perspective. The term “ontology” is inherited from philosophy,in which it is a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being. Ontologies are knowledge management and representation techniques that can be analyzed theoretically using concepts from description logic for...