Metaphysics Resource Page

General Sites

• 20th World Congress of Philosophy Papers: Metaphysics, Ontology
• Centre for Meaning and Metaphysical Study
• Early Modern Philosophy Texts - Jonathan Bennett's editions of important texts.
• EpistemeLinks Metaphysics Page
• Existence and Reality -- excellent course page
• Metaphysics -- course by M. Smillie
• Metaphysics (Proceedings of the Friesian School)
• Metaphysics by Default -- journal
• Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings
• The Metaphysics Research Lab

Topics

Causality

• Causal Processes (A. Dowe, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Lecture Notes on Causality (A. Freddoso)
• Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle (Frank Arntzenius, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Paper: Rockwell, Teed. A Defense of Emergent Downward Causation
• Suarez on Individuation and Causation

Consciousness/Philosophy of Mind

• A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind
• The Brain Project
• Can Machines Think? -- huge map of the various positions and debates
• Consciousness Studies (Peter Lloyd)
• Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (David Chalmers)
• Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind
• Mind/Brain Resources
• Minds and Machines Seminar (Ned Block) -- good set of links & resources
• Philosophy of Mind
• Web Resources Related to Consciousness (David Chalmers)
• WWW Resources in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science

Cosmology

• Cosmology and Theology (John Leslie, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Existence & Nothingness

• Existence (Barry Miller, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Holes (Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• The Void and Emptiness Site
• Why Does Anything Exist? -- paper

Free Will, Determinism, Compatibilism, Fatalism

• The Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website (Ted Honderich)
• Greenspan, P. S. Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problems
• Hoffman, Paul. Freedom and Strength of Will: Descartes and Albritton
• Honderich, Ted. Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck
• Lecture Notes on Freedom and Determinism (Norman Swartz)
• Thompson, David. Freedom and Determinism: A Naturalistic Approach

God/The Ultimate

• Ontological Arguments (Graham Oppy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• The Secular Web
• Theology (Oliver May)

Identity, Sameness, Difference (see also Universals and Individuals)

• Identity of Indiscernables (Peter Forrest, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory (Steven French, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Objectivity & Subjectivity

• Objectivity Home Page

Ontology

• Buffalo Ontology Site
  • Contemporary Ontology Resources and Sites
  • History of Ontology Resources
  • Ontological Engineering
• Laycock, Henry. Some Questions of Ontology
• Laycock, Henry. Object (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Laycock, Henry. Theories of Matter
• Maturana, Humberto R. Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument
• Ontology and Knowledge-Sharing
• Ontology: A Resource Guide for Philosophers
• Ontology Resources

Other Realities

• Metaphysics and Virtual Reality (Michael Heim)
• The Metaphysics of Cyberspace
• Possible Worlds (Norman Swartz)

Persons/Selves/Personal Identity

• CALResCo Papers on Complexity and Artificial Life
• *Person and Self
• Philosophical Perspectives on the Individual (David Chalmers) -- course

Space/Place

• The Hole Argument (spacetime theories) (John Norton, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Research on Place and Space - extensive resources, including a philosophy sub-page

Theories of Reality (Idealism, Materialism, Dualism, Monism, Process Thought, Perspectivism)

• Epiphenominalism (William Robinson, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Monorealism: Philosophy of the Real World
• Perspectivism

Time

• Conventionality of Simultaneity (Allen Janis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• New Analysis of Time
• Supertasks (Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point first chapter -- The View from Nowhen (Huw Price)
• Time Travel and Modern Physics (Frank Arntzenius and Tim Maudlin, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Time Travel in Flatland
• Time Travel to the Past (Norman Swartz)

Substance, Accidents, Properties

• Properties (Chris Swoyer, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Qualia (Michael Tye, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Universals & Individuals

• Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy (Paul Vincent Spade) -- lots of stuff on the mediaeval problem of universals
• Ross, Kelley L. Meaning and the Problem of Universals: A Kant-Friesian Approach
• Suarez on Individuation and Causation
• Rubinstein, Eric & Mary McLeod. "Universals" (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• The Essence of Reality

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