List of metaphysicians

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This is a list of metaphysicians, philosophers who specialize in metaphysics. See also Lists of philosophers.

Metaphysicians born BC

Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD

Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700

Metaphysicians born between 1700 and 1800

Metaphysicians born after 1900

References

↑ "The Review of Metaphysics"; "Dare to be Wise" Vol. 21 No. 4 (June 1968) pp.615-629 "Dare to be Wise" by Richard Taylor on JSTOR.org
↑ Taylor, Richard (1974) [1963]. Metaphysics. New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs. ISBN 9780135784686.
↑ "Metaphysics." Taylor, Richard. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1963) Introduction p. 2 Richard Taylor on hathitrust.org

v t e Metaphysics
Theories	Abstract object theory Action theory Anti-realism Determinism Dualism Enactivism Essentialism Existentialism Free will Idealism Libertarianism Liberty Materialism Meaning of life Monism Naturalism Nihilism Phenomenalism Physicalism Realism Relativism Scientific realism Solipsism Spiritualism Subjectivism Substance theory Theory of forms Truthmaker theory Type theory
Concepts	Abstract object Anima mundi Category of being Causality Causal closure Cogito, ergo sum Concept Cosmos Embodied cognition Entity Essence Existence Experience Hypostatic abstraction Idea Identity Importance Information Data Insight Intelligence Intention Linguistic modality Matter Meaning Mental representation Mind Motion Nature Necessity Object Ontology Pattern Perception Physical object Principle Property Qualia Quality Reality Relation Self Soul Subject Substantial form Thought Time Truth Type–token distinction Universal Unobservable Value
Metaphysicians	Anscombe Aquinas Aristotle Armstrong Averroes Avicenna Baudrillard Bergson Berkeley Boethius Bolzano Carnap Collingwood Davidson Deleuze Descartes Dummett Al-Ghazali Hegel Heidegger Hume Kant Kierkegaard Al-Kindi Kripke Laozi Leibniz Lewis Locke Lotze Lucretius Malebranche Meinong Moore Mozi Newton Nietzsche Parfit Parmenides Peirce Plantinga Plato Plotinus Proclus Putnam Quine Reid Russell Ryle Sartre Schopenhauer Scotus Spinoza Strawson Suárez Whitehead Wittgenstein Wolff more ...
Notable works	Sophist (c. 350 BC) Timaeus (c. 350 BC) Nyāya Sūtras (c. 200 BC) De rerum natura (c. 80 BC) Metaphysics (c. 50) Enneads (c. 270) Daneshnameh-ye Alai and Al-Nijat (c. 1000) Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) Ethics (1677) A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) Monadology (1714) Critique of Pure Reason (1781) Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783) The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) The World as Will and Representation (1818) Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846) Being and Time (1927) Being and Nothingness (1943) Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Related topics	Axiology Cosmology Epistemology Feminist metaphysics Interpretations of quantum mechanics Mereology Meta- Phenomenology Philosophy of mind Philosophy of psychology Philosophy of self Philosophy of space and time Teleology
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Metaphysicians born after 1900

Quentin Meillassoux. Born 26 October 1967. Associated with Seculative Realism movement. Book: After Finitude Graham Harman. Born, born May 9, 1968. Object oriented ontologist. Books: 1. Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything 2. Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects 3. Speculative Realism: An Introduction 4. The Quadruple Object etc.

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List of metaphysicians

Metaphysicians born BC

Metaphysicians born between 1 and 600 AD

Metaphysicians born between 600 and 1400

Metaphysicians born between 1400 and 1700

Metaphysicians born between 1700 and 1800

Metaphysicians born between 1800 and 1900

Metaphysicians born after 1900

References