In this paper, I consider ways of responding to critiques of natural kinds monism recently suggested from the pluralist camp. Even if monism is determined to be untenable in certain domains (say, ...

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible," Albert Einstein famously once said. These days, however, it is far from being a matter of consensus that the universe ...

Modal rationalism includes the thesis that ideal primary positive conceivability entails primary possibility. Modal monism is the thesis that the space of logically possible worlds is coextensive with ...

The free will debate is caricatured as atheist science versus religious tradition, but it's more complicated than that, writes Professor Peter Clarke. Rene Descartes, the 17th-century French ...

This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of human nature and the possibility of post-mortem survival.Kevin Corcoran's collection, Soul, Body, and Survival, includes ...

THIS little volume of Mr. Romanes' metaphysical writings possesses great interest. The type of philosophical theory which he represents has a singular fascination. He himself, it is plain, possessed ...