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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 ...

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 ...

The other day I went to a talk about the fall and revival of metaphysics, given by Sebastian Kolodziejczyk at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Metaphysics these days has a bad ...

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 ...