Truth and objectivity in contemporary metaphysics Manuel Vella graduated Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Malta in November with his thesis entitled Sameness: Heidegger and Wittgenstein in ...

Dan Kaufman (Ph.D. UMass, 2000) is Associate Professor of Philosophy. His research focuses on 17th-century philosophy, especially the metaphysics of Descartes, Locke, and Leibniz. He is also ...

Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...

Source: Image created with Chat-GPT Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic ...

Scott Berman (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1990) specializes in ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. His current research focuses on the metaphysical theories of Plato and ...