Argumenta - Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2020

Argumenta, 2020

Contemporary philosophers have studied food and its consumption from several disciplinary perspectives, including normative ethics, bioethics, environmental ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, and aesthetics. Many questions remain, however, underexplored or unaddressed. It is in the spirit of contributing to fill in these scholarly gaps that we designed the current issue, which represents the first collection of papers dedicated to food from a perspective of analytic metaphysics. Before presenting the five papers published in this issue, we shall briefly frame the current research on food linked to analytic metaphysics and point out future directions of research in this area. We begin with the most basic interrogative, namely What is food?, and then offer three illustrations of more specific research questions. We hope these examples suffice to demonstrate that food is a fertile terrain of inquiry for analytic metaphysics and that it deserves to be developed.

Modern Metaphysics, 2007

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between possibility and actuality. Reviewing these papers will set the scene for a REVIEW of the very popular KANTISM of Today. Metaphysics is the science of being and ask the question “What really exists?” The answer to this question has been sought for by mankind since the beginning of recorded time. In the past 2500 years there have been many answers to this question and these answers dominate our view of how physics is done. Examples of questions which were originally metaphysical are the shape of the earth, the motion of the earth, the existence of atoms, the relativity of space and time, the uncertainty principle, the renormalization of field theory and the existence of quarks and strings. we should explore our changing conception of what constitutes reality by examining the views of Aristotle, Ptolemy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Compte, Einstein, Bohr, Feynman, Schwinger, Yang, Gell-Mann, Wilson and Witten ET AL https://cds.cern.ch/record/311040/files/9609160.pdf IE IS THE INTERNATIONAL DEBT SIMPLY A FIGMENT OF ALL OUR IMAGINATION? IT MAY NEVER BE REPAID IN FULL HENCE IT MAY FOLLOW THAT IN FACT IT DOES NOT EXIST THEREFORE: ""WHY WORRY?"" Metaphysics Peter van Inwagen Meghan Sullivan SEE PDF

Reflections on Philosophy, 2003

In this introduction to metaphysics, I explore the problem of “What is ultimately real?” within the context of the ancient debate between Plato and Aristotle. Each system of thought is critically evaluated, and a modified version of Plato’s metaphysics is advanced as the solution to the problem. I then examine some criticisms of metaphysics as a whole and end with a defense of metaphysics against such objections.

2019

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2012

Editorial foreword CurrEnt IssuEs In MEtaphysICs Gábor bács-János Tőzsér, Works of art from the Innocent point of View thoMas M. CrIsp, temporal passage: a shape-Dynamic account Ferenc HuoranszkI, powers, Dispositions, and Counterfactual Conditionals hoWarD robInson, "are there any Fs?": how We should understand this Question pEtEr Van InWagEn, "Who sees not that all the Dispute is about a Word?": some thoughts on bennett's "proxy 'actualism'" zsóFia zvolenszky, against sainsbury's Irrealism about

Presented at the German-American Colloquium 2012

Neoaristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (Routledge), 2014

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.

Schriften aus der Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2013

This collection of essays originated in the Summer School 'Metaphysics or Modernity?', which was held at the University of Bamberg in August 2012. Designed as a forum for graduate students in philosophy, the Summer School brought together a highly diverse group of young academics who-more often than not-came from utterly different schools and traditions of thought. This pluralism is reflected in the pages of this book. While the volume is roughly divided into two halves-one with a more historical focus, the other with a more systematic focus-the reader will find an unusually wide array of topics and questions treated here. Since the aforementioned pluralism was one of the main strengths of our Summer School, this is something in which we take much pride. Neither this collection of essays nor the Summer School itself would have been possible without the generous support of both the Philosophy Department at the University of Bamberg and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In particular, Christian Schäfer and Christian Illies have spent numerous hours discussing our project with us, navigating administrative difficulties and giving valuable advice or encouragement. To them-as well as to all our colleagues who were willing to publish their work in this collection-we owe heartfelt thanks.