List of topics in metaphysics

List of topics in metaphysics

*Key concepts: TimeExperienceCausalityPrincipleValueSelfActionIntentionMatterMeaningEssenceSubjectObjectUnityTruthMindNecessityPatternMotionFreedomFormIdea

*Ontology: BeingCategory of beingChangeCogito ergo sum • Dualism • Embodied philosophyEntityExistenceExistentialismIdentityPhysical objectPropertiesRealityRelativismScientific realismSubjectivismSubstance theoryType theoryUniversalUnobservables

*Big Questions:What is the nature of the universe?What is the meaning of life?What is being?What is time?What is experience?What is causality? • What are principles? • What is value?What is the self?What is action or motion?What is will?Whats is matter?What is meaning? • What are types? •

*Theories: Platonic idealismHindu idealismScientific materialismCartesian dualismPhenomenalismExistentialismNihilismRealismAnti-realism

*Full list:

* Action (philosophy)
* Action (physics)
* Alfred North Whitehead
* Anti-realism
* Aristotle
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Axiology
* Baruch Spinoza
* Being
* Bertrand Russell
* Cartesian dualism
* Category of being
* Causality
* Change
* Choice
* Cogito ergo sum
* Determinism
* Dimension
* Donald Davidson (philosopher)
* Dualism
* Elea
* Embodied philosophy
* Entity
* Erastes
* Essence
* Existence
* Existentialism
* Experience
* Form
* Freedom
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
* George Berkeley
* George Edward Moore
* Gottfried Leibniz
* Greek language
* Hellenic Greece
* Hilary Putnam
* Hindu idealism
* Idea
* Identity (philosophy)
* Immanuel Kant
* Intention
* Jean-Paul Sartre
* John Duns Scotus
* John Locke
* Law of nature
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Martin Heidegger
* Matter
* Meaning
* Melissus of Samos
* Metaphysics
* Mind
* Modality
* MOQ
* Motion
* Motion (physics)
* Necessity
* Newtonian time
* Nihilism
* Number
* Object
* Ontology
* Parmenides
* Pattern
* Perception
* Phenomenalism
* Philosophical realism
* Philosophy
* Philosophy of space and time
* Physical object
* Physicalism
* Plato
* Platonic idealism
* Plotinus
* Poem
* Pre-Socratic
* Preface
* Principle
* Principles
* Properties
* Quantity
* Realism
* Reality
* Relativism
* René Descartes
* Saul Kripke
* School of Elea
* Scientific materialism
* Scientific realism
* Self
* Self (philosophy)
* Sequence
* Sir Isaac Newton
* Solipsism
* Space
* St. Thomas Aquinas
* Subject
* Subjectivism
* Substance
* Substance theory
* Teleology
* Theoretical physics
* Theory of types
* Time
* Truth
* Type theory
* Unity
* Universal (metaphysics)
* Universe
* Unobservables
* Value
* W. V. O. Quine
* What is the meaning of life?
* Willard Van Orman Quine
* World (philosophy)
* Zeno of Elea


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