Metaontology

Beginner

Nothing here assumes you have read philosophy before. Every term is defined where it first appears, and the motivating example comes before the formalism.

Questions About Questions of ExistencePlanned
The step back from asking what exists to asking what that question means and how to answer it
8 min
Descriptive and Revisionary MetaphysicsPlanned
Strawson's contrast between mapping how we think about the world and correcting it
9 min
Common Sense and Moorean FactsPlanned
Whether 'I have hands' outweighs any philosophical argument that there are no hands
9 min
Simplicity in MetaphysicsPlanned
Ockham's razor, counting entities, and why a simpler theory might be likelier to be true
10 min
Metaphysics and SciencePlanned
Whether metaphysics has questions of its own or must take its ontology from physics
9 min