Metaphysics Question
What Is The Meaning of life
Identity and change
meaning
Identity
Identity is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable - it is what makes something unique.
Change
Change is an alteration of that identity.
Philosophers
Aristotle
Locke
Liebniz
Theories
Law of Identity
Identity theory is a family of views on the relationship between mind and body. Something can not exist without existing as something else.
Law of casualty
Identity control theory is a theory in sociology concerned with the development of personal identity.
Cosmology and Cosmogony
Meaning
Cosmology
Cosmology is the study of the cosmos or universe.
Cosmogony
Cosmogony is a scientific explanation of how the universe came into being.
Philosophers
Spinoza
Voltaire
Plotinus
Theories
Diesem
Diesem
Theology
Subtopic
Objects and their properties
Meaning
The world contains many individual things. Whether those things are physical, such as a cat, ramen noodles, or a sweater - or abstract things, such as ‘happiness’ - what these things have in common with each other is called ‘universals’ or ‘properties.’
Philosophers
Russel
Alfred Edward Taylor
Descartes
Theories
Pragmatism
Substance Theory
Reductionism
Holism
Objecthood
What is our place in the Universe
Cosmology and cosmogony
meaning
Cosology
Cosmology is the study of the cosmos or universe.
Subtopic
Cosmogony
Cosmogony is a scientific explanation of how the universe came into being.
Philosophers
Plotinus
Voltarie
Spinoza
Theories
Diesem
Theology
Space and Time
Meaning
Ever look up from a good book and realize that hours have gone by as if they were minutes? Or sat in a class, convinced you have been trapped there for hours, only to note - to your dismay - that you have been there for mere minutes
Philosophers and Theorists
J.M.E. McTaggart
Albert Einstein
Descartes
Leibniz
Issac Newton John
Ernst Mach
Therories
The Bucket Argument
Absolutism
Principle of Relativity
Conventionalism
Object and their properties
Meaning
The world contains many individual things. Whether those things are physical, such as a cat, ramen noodles, or a sweater - or abstract things, such as ‘happiness’ - what these things have in common with each other is called ‘universals’ or ‘properties.’
Philosophers
Russel
Alfred Edward Taylor
Descartes
Theories
Pragmatism
Substance Theory
Reductionism
Holism
Objecthood
What is consciousness
Existence and consciousness
meaning
How do you know that you ‘exist?’ This may seen like a strange question as you would probably look down at your body and suggest that as you are conscious of ‘being,’ then you must exist - right? And yet that very question is one that is considered debatable in terms of metaphysics.
Philosophers
Descartes
Locke
Leibniz
Thomas Nagel
David Chalmers
Theories
Epistemology
Ontology
Truth of Being.
Abstract objects and Mathematics
Meaning
It is widely supposed that every entity falls into one of two categories: some are concrete; the rest are abstract. The theory of abstract objects is a metaphysical theory.
Philosophers
Aristotle
Plato
Theories
Nominalism, Realism, Platonic forms, Conceptualism.
Realism
Platonic Forms
Conceptualism
Mind and Matter
Meaning
Can our thought processes influence our physical reality? In metaphysics, questions regarding mind and matter (also known as the mind-body dilemma) focus on where our consciousness resides. If the mind is not physical, then how can it have effects in the physical world? But if the mind is physical, then how can we explain consciousness?
Philosophers
Berkeley
Kant
Decartes
Locke
Spinoza
Theories
Dualistic theory
Cartesian skepticism.
Do we have free will
Determinism and Free Will
meaning
Determinism
Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision, and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.
Free will
Free Will is the exact opposite of this. It contains the power of choice - it proposes that we are rational agents that have autonomous control over our own actions and decisions.
Philosophers
Spinoza
Hobbes
Theories
Determinism
fatalism
Compatibilism.
Identity and Change
Meaning
Identity
Identity is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable - it is what makes something unique.
Change
Change is an alteration of that identity.
Philosophers
Aristotle
Leibniz
Theories
Law of Identity
Law of Causality
Religion and Spirituality
Meaning
Religion
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Spirituality
the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
Philosophers
Marilyn McCord Adam
Hume
Nietzsche
Aquinas
Kierkegaard
Theories
Scholasticism
Fideism
Deism
Athesim
Humanism
Monotheism
Does god exist
Religion and Spirituality
Meaning
Religion
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Spirituality
the quality of being concerned with the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things.
Philosophers
Marilyn McCord Adam
Hume
Nietzsche
Aquinas
Kierkegaard
Theories
Scholasticism
Fideism
Deism
Athesim
Humanism
Monotheism
Necessity and Possibility
Meaning
A necessary fact is true across all possible worlds. A possible fact is one that is true in some possible world (even if not in the actual world)
Philosophers
Thomas Aquinas
Leibniz
David Lewis
Aristotle
Theories
Modal Realism
Cosmological Argument
Quantum Mechanics
Existence and Consciousness
Meaning
How do you know that you ‘exist?’ This may seen like a strange question as you would probably look down at your body and suggest that as you are conscious of ‘being,’ then you must exist - right? And yet that very question is one that is considered debatable in terms of metaphysics.
Philosophers
Descartes
Locke
Leibniz
Thomas Nagel
David Chalmers
Theories
Epistemology, Ontology, Truth of Being.
Ontology
Truth of Being