(with J. Cumpa) Metaphysical Fundamentals, issue of American Philosophical Quarterly (2014), pp. 98. Articles by Amie Thomasson, Lynne Rudder Baker, Jorge Gracia ...

In Cotard’s syndrome, the feeling of existence corrodes but something more fundamental does not (see “How do I know I exist“). Even though people with this rare condition feel they don’t exist, there ...

“ALL men by nature desire to know.” So begins the first book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, written about two and a half thousand years ago and still one of the most influential works of Western ...

Sun 22, 1pm – 2.30pm: “What is Metaphysics?” is a question highly debated and not easy to answer. In contemporary philosophy, metaphysics is often understood as the area of the discipline that asks ...

This blog series maps out the key elements of human knowledge to help folks make better sense of the world. The prior post (Part 2) introduced epistemology and shared Ken Wilber’s quadrant model. Here ...

Metaphysical practices, mysticism, and what was called the “New Age Movement” for its revival of ancient practices isn’t anything new—religious practices like Hinduism and Buddhism have always ...

The first Western philosopher to examine systematically the relationship between the tragedy of human finitude and the ubiquity of metaphysical illusion was Wilhelm Dilthey. Dilthey’s life’s work can ...