Nagarjuna is probably the most famous of the Buddhist metaphysicians, at least among Western scholars. His "On The Middle Way" is actually pretty accessible IF you have some background in Buddhist metaphysics, or a reading guide.

Metaphysicians* David Armstrong Michael Burke Rudolf Carnap David Chalmers Rod Chisholm René Descartes Peter Geach David Hume Immanuel Kant David Lewis E. Jonathan Lowe Trenton Merricks Huw Price Willard van Orman Quine Michael Rea Nicholas Rescher Alan Sidelle Ted Sider Richard Taylor Peter Unger Peter van Inwagen David Wiggins Timothy Williamson

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Dec 29, 2016 · David Lewis is famous for several things in metaphysics: counterfactual theory of causation, Humean supervenience, possible world realism, reformed analysis of dispositions, metaphysics of holes, and so on.

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.

Sep 10, 2007 · (A third famous problem of material constitution—the problem of the Ship of Theseus—raises questions of a different sort.) Some metaphysicians contend that the relation between the lump and the statue, on the one hand, and the relation between Tib and Tibbles, on the other, cannot be fully understood in terms of the concepts of parthood and ...

3 James Johnson Morse (1848- 1919) reformation.org. Championed as the biggest influence on British Spiritualism, James J Morse made his fame as a trance medium, giving weekly séances at the Spiritual Institution in the 1860s. He was made National Federation president in 1899 & 1900. leparanormal.forumactif.com.

Metaphysicians tackle – or, okay, let’s be fair, attempt to tackle – questions that lie beyond or behind those capable of being tackled by the physical sciences. For this reason – and not because it is unscientific – metaphysics is a branch of philosophy and not science .