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unusual facts about metaphysics



Achit

Achit (metaphysics), a term used in Vishishtadvaita to refer to the world of insentient entities as denoted by matter

Alexandra Powers

Commenting on her faith, she stated, "I pray whenever I feel sad. And I believe that whatever is right, will work out." In that same interview, she said that her father was Roman Catholic, and her mother Katharyn Powers was interested in metaphysics.

Alfred Mele

Without committing himself to the idea that human autonomy is compatible with determinism or incompatible (a position held by both libertarians and incompatibilists), Mele provides arguments in support of autonomous agents for both positions.

Aristotelianism

In metaphysics, an Aristotelian realism about universals is defended by such philosophers as David Malet Armstrong and Stephen Mumford, and is applied to the philosophy of mathematics by James Franklin.

Axel Hägerström

Hägerström, who had been influenced by the Neo-Kantianism of the Marburg school, rejected metaphysics in their entirety.

Bemerton

John Norris, rector from 1692 until 1711, a philosopher, poet and theologian whose metaphysics were closely associated with those of Nicolas Malebranche.

Branislav Petronijević

With his whole philosophical, philosophically-scientific and scientific activity Petronijević, in the line with earlier empirical and critical metaphisicists, such as Lotze, Herbart, Hartmann, Volkelt, he directly contributed and made possible the formation of modern sphere of cognition which is today known as Metascience.

Brian Boyd

In 1979 Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, in the context of Nabokov’s epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

Brihad Bhagavatamrita

While Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa sets out guidance for Vaishnava behavior and ritual, Brihad-bhagavatamrita contains an analysis of the teachings of Chaitanya from an ontological and metaphysical perspective.

Closure: A Short History of Everything

Radical theologian, Don Cuppitt, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, described Closure as 'perhaps the first non-realist metaphysics'.

D. J. Conway

Conway (born 1939) is a non-fiction author of books in the field of magic, Wicca, Druidism, shamanism, metaphysics and the occult, and the author of three fantasy novels.

Dominic of Flanders

His commentaries on Aristotle and on Thomas Aquinas were frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

Edgington

Dorothy Edgington, philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic

Francisco de Araujo

Commentaria in universam Aristotelis metaphysicam, Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle (Two vols: 1° Salamanca, 1617; 2°, ibid., 1631);

Freya Mathews

Her work is mainly concerned with ecological philosophy but also deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and politics as well as a variety of themes, such as cosmology, place, identity and indigeneity versus modernity.

George Panthanmackel

He has taught several subjects: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophical Anthropology, Methodology, Sociology, Public Administration, Political Science, History of Western Philosophy, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Marxism, Trinity, and English Literature.

Giles sisters

They did attend one class with the men, metaphysics, taught by then-President Braxton Craven.

Giovanna Borradori

In her anthology, Recoding Metaphysics: The New Italian Philosophy, Borradori presented late 20th-century Italian thinkers, such as Gianni Vattimo, Massimo Cacciari, Mario Perniola,and Emanuele Severino, to the American audience.

Hildebrando Fuentes

For some years he held the chair of metaphysics, statistics, and finance at the University of San Marcos, while at various times he was the editor of such prominent publications as El Nacional, El Diario, La Reconstitución, El Perú, and La Revista Militar y Navel.

Jakob Merten

He was author of an essay on Güntherian philosophy titled Hauptfragen der Metaphysik in Verbindung mit der Speculation (Primary Questions of Metaphysics in Association with Speculation) (1840).

Judah Leon ben Moses Mosconi

Mosconi was well versed in philosophical works, both Hebrew and Arabic; but, having a predilection for metaphysics, he occupied himself particularly with Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, on which he wrote a supercommentary.

Julia Annas

Aristotle, Aristotle's Metaphysics Books M and N (Oxford, 1976).

Leonard F. Morse

Morse continued his education by earning a Master’s degree from Northwestern University and two Doctorates in Metaphysics and Psychology from the College of Metaphysics in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Manitoba's Wild Kingdom

They signed with Sandy Pearlman (best known for his work with Blue Öyster Cult), who had also produced albums for The Dictators, on his Pearlman's new label, Popular Metaphysics, which was formerly the San Francisco punk label, 415 Records.

Moses Amyraut

Moïse Amyraut, Latin Moyses Amyraldus (Bourgueil, September 1596 – January 8, 1664), in English texts often Moses Amyraut, was a French Protestant theologian and metaphysician.

Natural philosophy

René Descartes' metaphysical system of Cartesian Dualism describes two kinds of substance: matter and mind.

Nicola Guarino

His emphasis on formal rigor in specifying the type of knowledge that was eventually to be called "ontologies" by computer scientists, led him to the field of formal ontology in philosophy, where he began to study the metaphysics literature, focusing on the work of such notables as Quine, Strawson, and especially Simons.

Philolaus

According to Aristotle writing in Metaphysics, Philolaus added a tenth unseen body, he called Counter-Earth, as without it there would be only nine revolving bodies, and the Pythagorean number theory required a tenth.

Popular Metaphysics

Popular Metaphysics was a record label created by Sandy Pearlman in Studio C of the Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco in 1989.

Prism

The results of this experiment dramatically transformed the field of metaphysics, leading to John Locke's primary vs secondary quality distinction.

Samuel Merrill Woodbridge

He would serve 44 years as a professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at New Brunswick Theological Seminary (from 1857 to 1901) and for seven years as a professor of "Metaphysics and Philosophy of the Human Mind" at Rutgers College (from 1857 to 1864).

After settling in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he taught for 44 years as professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and for seven years as professor of "metaphysics and philosophy of the human mind" at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) in New Brunswick.

Schahan Berberian

The first job of the fifteen-year-old young man was to teach literature and natural sciences at his alma mater but in 1908, he left for Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, taking classes in philosophy and metaphysics with Henri Bergson, psychology with Georges Dumas and sociology with Émile Durkheim, thus receiving a thorough education in the liberal arts and obtaining a diploma to teach philosophy.

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Billy Davis
Ralf Gustke
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Bernd Herrmann
Michael Klimas
Kosho
Robbee Mariano
Henning Wehland
Metaphysics
Xavier Naidoo
Tino Oac
Florian Sitzmann

Thomas Jefferson and education

At William & Mary, he enrolled in the philosophy school and studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton.

Thomas-Institut

In search of the origins and motives of the splitting of metaphysics in the 17th and 18th century into a metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis, conceived for the first time by Francis of Marchia at the beginning of the 14th century, this project enquires into the relationship between the first object of the human intellect and the proper object of metaphysics as they present themselves in conceptions of metaphysics after the time of Duns Scotus.


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