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Please do not submit sites on popular metaphysics here. This category is only for sites dealing with traditional academic questions of metaphysics, not for the Tarot, divination, channeling, paranormal activity, spirituality, etc. Such sites belong in the appropriate category in Society: Religion and Spirituality.
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Metaphysics is a primary subject area in philosophy which investigates the nature, constitution, and structure of reality. It also deals with notions such as causation, time, modality (necessity and possibility), particulars and universals, and the relation of mind to body.
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Submissions dealing specifically with the concept of causality. |
Works in philosophy dealing with the concept of causality: Cause and Effect relations, either classical or modern.
Sites and papers addressing questions of determinism and/or free will and their implications.
| Description: Philosophers who are widely viewed as metaphysicians. |
Philosophers who are widely viewed as metaphysicians.
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Submit only works related to the theory of mind or consciousness. |
Works related to the theory of mind or consciousness.
Modailty deals with what is necessary and what is possible; e.g., a necessary truth is a proposition that could not have been false, a necessary existent is an entity that could not have failed to exist, etc.
Ontology is defined as the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature relations of being or existence. It is the field of study concerned with the classification of entities.
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Submissions should be directly related to process thought as related to the writings of Alfred North Whitehead. |
Process metaphysics as developed by Alfred North Whitehead, and other philosophers.
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Works dealing specifically with the concepts of space and time, or spacetime, from a philosophical perspective primarily. |
Works dealing with the concepts of space and time.
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