Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

Metaphysics explores fundamental questions about reality, existence, and being, primarily through abstract thought and reasoning. Metaphysics should be distinguished from philosophy. While metaphysics ...

Galileo is generally credited with being the father of modern science. As this lecture aptly describes, he completely eschewed metaphysics and got along with the business of empirically and ...