Causal Processes - Bertrand Russell, Wesley Salmon, and conserved quantities. By Phil Dowe for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
The Center for Process Studies - The Center for Process Studies was founded in 1973 to encourage exploration of the relevance of process thought, which is based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, to many fields of reflection and action.
Color - Metaphysical and epistemological accounts of color. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Barry Maund.
Concepts of Person and Self - Links to resources including bibliographies, journals, online texts, and institutions. Maintained by Professor Shaun Gallagher, Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Canisius College.
Counterfactual Theories of Causation - Discussion of analysis of causal statements in terms of counterfactual conditionals; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Peter Menzies.
Existence - Survey article from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Barry Miller.
The Hole Argument - The hole argument is an attempt to illustrate how spacetime substantivalism causes errors in a large class of spacetime theories. From the Stanford Encyclopedia by John D. Norton.
Kant's Theocentric Metaphysics - Essay by Prof. Stephen Palmquist on Kant's Theocentric Metaphysics (Answers the question: "Was Kant the destroyer of Metaphysics?")
Mereology - The theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Achille Varzi.
Metaphysics, Multiple Meanings - This site distinguishes popular and academic metaphysics, and provides links related to each.
The Metaphysics of Blue - On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.
Metaphysics of Quality - Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.
Naive Metaphysics: A Theory of Subjective and Objective Worlds - Supporting material for the book written by Geoffrey Klempner. Two extracts are provided; the preface, which explains the unusual circumstances and goals the author had whilst writing the book; and the first chapter, which consists of a long meditation on two problems of existence.
Philosophical Apologetic - A philosophical apologetic, or argument from pure reason in answer to Immanuel Kant's challenge. Pure Philosophical Argument for the Existence of a Supreme Being (consisting of five a priori principles).
Probabilistic Causation - Designates a group of philosophical theories that aim to characterize the relationship between cause and effect using the tools of probability theory.
A Radical New Metaphysics - A paper by Tom Milner-Gulland presented at the Philosophy As Conference, November 30th, 2002
SOSIG: Metaphysics - Metaphysics resource page from the Social Science Information Gateway.
Suppositions - Speculations about infinity, oscillating universes, antimatter worlds, "eternal" palindromes, and the Big Bang.
Time Travel and Modern Physics - The paradoxes inherent in the idea of time travel are explained in the context of modern physics. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Tim Maudlin.
The Wysiwyg Universe - The nature of Reality is cast against two postulates: that experience is the only reality for an observer; and that there is no reality other than experience.
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