Practical Metaphysics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-02

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00:01:12 1 Epistemological foundation
00:04:05 2 Central questions
00:04:15 2.1 Ontology (Being)
00:04:54 2.2 Identity and change
00:07:51 2.3 Space and time
00:08:36 2.4 Causality
00:09:45 2.5 Necessity and possibility
00:11:42 3 Peripheral questions
00:12:22 3.1 Cosmology and cosmogony
00:14:03 3.2 Mind and matter
00:15:37 3.3 Determinism and free will
00:17:30 3.4 Natural and social kinds
00:18:56 3.5 Number
00:19:46 3.6 Applied metaphysics
00:22:05 4 Relationship of metaphysics and science
00:27:21 5 Rejections of metaphysics
00:31:08 6 Etymology
00:34:13 7 History and schools of metaphysics
00:34:24 7.1 Pre-history
00:35:24 7.2 Bronze age
00:36:12 7.3 Pre-Socratic Greece
00:38:09 7.4 Classical China
00:40:24 7.5 Socrates and Plato
00:41:56 7.6 Aristotle
00:43:42 7.7 Classical India
00:43:55 7.7.1 Sāṃkhya
00:47:17 7.7.2 Vedānta
00:50:18 7.8 Buddhist metaphysics
00:52:03 7.9 Islamic metaphysics
00:52:23 7.10 Scholasticism and the Middle Ages
00:53:20 7.11 Rationalism and Continental Rationalism
00:54:10 7.12 British empiricism
00:55:07 7.13 Wolff
00:56:07 7.14 Kant
00:58:45 7.15 Kantians
00:59:34 7.16 Early analytical philosophy and positivism
01:01:04 7.17 Continental philosophy
01:02:32 7.18 Process metaphysics
01:05:19 7.19 Contemporary analytical philosophy
01:07:07 8 See also



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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. The word "metaphysics" comes from two Greek words that, together, literally mean "after or behind or among [the study of] the natural". It has been suggested that the term might have been coined by a first century CE editor who assembled various small selections of Aristotle’s works into the treatise we now know by the name Metaphysics (ta meta ta phusika, 'after the Physics ', another of Aristotle's works).Metaphysics studies questions related to what it is for something to exist and what types of existence there are. Metaphysics seeks to answer, in an abstract and fully general manner, the questions:
What is there?
What is it like?Topics of metaphysical investigation include existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility.