Metaphysics Resource Page

General Sites

• 20th World Congress of Philosophy Papers: Metaphysics, Ontology
  
• Centre
  for Meaning and Metaphysical Study
  
• Early Modern Philosophy Texts – Jonathan Bennett’s editions of important texts.
  
• EpistemeLinks
  Metaphysics Page
  
• Existence and Reality — excellent course page
  
• Metaphysics — course by M. Smillie
  
• Metaphysics (Proceedings of the Friesian School)
  
• Metaphysics by Default — journal
  
• Metaphysics: Multiple Meanings
  
• The Metaphysics Research Lab
  

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Topics

Causality

• Causal
  Processes (A. Dowe, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Lecture Notes
  on Causality (A. Freddoso)
  
• Reichenbach’s
  Common Cause Principle (Frank Arntzenius, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Paper: Rockwell, Teed. A Defense of Emergent Downward Causation
  
  
• Suarez on Individuation
  and Causation
  
  
• The New Ontology of the Mental Causation Debate
  

Consciousness/Philosophy of Mind

• A Field Guide to the Philosophy
  of Mind
  
• The Brain Project
  
• Can Machines Think? — huge map of the various positions and debates
  
• Consciousness Studies (Peter Lloyd)
  
• Contemporary Philosophy
  of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography (David Chalmers)
  
• Dictionary
  of the Philosophy of Mind
  
• Mind/Brain Resources
  
• Minds
  and Machines Seminar (Ned Block) — good set of links
  & resources
  
• Philosophy of Mind
  
• Web Resources Related
  to Consciousness (David Chalmers)
  
• WWW Resources in Philosophy
  of Mind and Cognitive Science
  

Cosmology

• Cosmology
  and Theology (John Leslie, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  

Existence & Nothingness

• Existence (Barry Miller, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Holes (Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• The Void and Emptiness Site
  
• Why Does Anything Exist? — paper
  

Free Will, Determinism, Compatibilism, Fatalism

• The Determinism
  and Freedom Philosophy Website (Ted Honderich)
  
• Greenspan, P. S. Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problems
  
• Hoffman, Paul. Freedom and Strength of Will: Descartes and Albritton
  
• Honderich, Ted. Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and the Smart Aleck
  
• Lecture Notes on
  Freedom and Determinism (Norman Swartz)
  
• Thompson, David. Freedom and Determinism: A Naturalistic Approach
  

God/The Ultimate

• Ontological
  Arguments (Graham Oppy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• The Secular Web
  
• Theology (Oliver May)
  

Identity, Sameness, Difference (see also Universals and Individuals)

• Identity
  of Indiscernables (Peter Forrest, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Identity
  and Individuality in Quantum Theory (Steven French, Stanford Encyclopedia
  of Philosophy)
  

Objectivity & Subjectivity

• Objectivity
  Home Page
  

Ontology

• Buffalo Ontology Site
  
  
  
  • Contemporary Ontology
    Resources and Sites
    
  • History of Ontology Resources
    
  • Ontological Engineering
    
  
  
• Laycock, Henry. Some Questions of Ontology
  
• Laycock, Henry. Object (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Laycock, Henry. Theories
  of Matter
  
• Maturana, Humberto R. Reality: The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument
  
• Ontology and
  Knowledge-Sharing
  
• Ontology: A Resource Guide for Philosophers
  
• Ontology Resources
  

Other Realities

• Metaphysics and Virtual Reality (Michael Heim)
  
• The Metaphysics of Cyberspace
  
• Possible Worlds (Norman Swartz)
  

Persons/Selves/Personal Identity

• CALResCo Papers on Complexity and
  Artificial Life
  
• *Person and Self
  
• Philosophical Perspectives
  on the Individual (David Chalmers) — course
  

Space/Place

• The
  Hole Argument (spacetime theories) (John Norton, Stanford Encyclopedia
  of Philosophy)
  
• Research on Place and Space – extensive resources, including a philosophy sub-page
  

Theories of Reality (Idealism, Materialism, Dualism, Monism,
Process Thought, Perspectivism)

• Epiphenominalism (William Robinson, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Monorealism: Philosophy of the
  Real World
  
• Perspectivism
  

Time

• Conventionality
  of Simultaneity (Allen Janis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• New Analysis of Time
  
• Supertasks (Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’
  Point first
  chapter — The View from Nowhen (Huw Price)
  
• Time
  Travel and Modern Physics (Frank Arntzenius and Tim Maudlin,
  Stanford Encyclopedia
  of Philosophy)
  
• Time Travel
  in Flatland
  
• Time Travel to
  the Past (Norman Swartz)
  

Substance, Accidents, Properties

• Properties (Chris Swoyer, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Qualia (Michael Tye, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  

Universals & Individuals

• Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy (Paul Vincent Spade) — lots of stuff on the mediaeval problem of universals
  
• Ross, Kelley L. Meaning and the Problem of Universals: A Kant-Friesian Approach
  
• Suarez on Individuation
  and Causation
  
• Rubinstein, Eric & Mary McLeod. "Universals" (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  

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"Popular" Metaphysics

• The Essence of Reality