Tuomas E. Tahko is Professor of Metaphysics of Science and Head of the School of Arts at the University of Bristol, working on natural kinds, laws of nature, essence, modality, and the metaphysics of ...

Abstract. David Oderberg has recently extended classical Aristotelian-Thomistic hylemorphism beyond traditional substance ontology to analyse linguistic, e

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Philosophical Studies - This paper defends Natural Kind Fundamentalism (NKF), the view that the ontological category of natural kind is fundamental. I develop a primitivist account of categorial...

It is often suggested that at least some entities posited in QM are non-individuals, in the sense that they are numerically distinct entities but there is no fact of the matter as to which entity is which. Such entities are often regarded as holistic, in the sense...

A discussion about nature and AI – what they are, humanity’s place in relation to them, and the associated opportunities and risks

Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Metaontology

Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics

The 2025 Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science will be held at USI in Lugano, Switzerland, 30 June through 2 July.

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Social Ontology

Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo-Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For inst...

Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - The Metaphysics of Color

The notion of fundamentality has received much attention in recent years. In particular, significant progress has been achieved by developing and comparing ...

Biochemical kinds present an interesting case study in the philosophical literature on natural kinds and functions, as they fall between chemical kinds, defined by their intrinsic microstructural prop...

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