When The Atlantic was revising its style guide for the web a few months ago, my cubicle unexpectedly turned into a metaphysical brawling zone.Our house policy is to capitalize "God" when it refers ...

Ayn Rand, Freedom and Metaphysics’ Role In “Atlas Shrugged,” the hero urges the better people of the world to discard faith and embrace a new philosophy of life and happiness, devoid of ...

Regardless, one of the big focuses of Aristotle’s metaphysics, and therefore of metaphysicians thereafter, is how we can prove the external world. There are many ways of asking this question.

The state of pregnancy speaks to some of philosophy's big metaphysical questions, but has been largely left on the sidelines. Joe Gelonesi talks to a bioethicist who wants to change that.

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We’re not saying science has superseded metaphysics, or solved philosophy’s problems. There is still much fundamental science to be done, and a great deal of metaphysics too.

CRITICAL philosophy or metaphysics Mr. Read divides into two branches, the metaphysics of nature and science and the metaphysics of ideals. In this work he deals only with the former branch, and ...