Who is the father of metaphysics in philosophy?

Parmenides
Parmenides is the father of metaphysics. Parmenides is a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose work survives today in fragments.

Who is the founder of metaphysics?

Aristotle
The word ‘metaphysics’ is derived from a collective title of the fourteen books by Aristotle that we currently think of as making up Aristotle’s Metaphysics.

What is a metaphysics theory?

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility.

What is the best introduction to metaphysics?

Let’s jump in!

Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction, by Stephen Mumford.
Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History, by Anna Marmodoro.
Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology, by Tim Crane.
The Metaphysics, by Aristotle.
Meditations on First Philosophy, by René Descartes.
Ethics, by Spinoza.

What is the problem with too much contemporary thinking about the nature of life according to Feser?

From a Scholastic point of view, the problem with too much contemporary thinking about the nature of life is that it focuses on what are really properties of life (again, in the Scholastic sense of “properties”) and tries to characterize life in terms of one of these properties or a cluster of properties.

What are the schools of metaphysics?

The major schools of thought in relation with metaphysics are realism, idealism, materialism, determinism, and libertarianism.

What is a metaphysical force?

“metaphysical forces” Synonyms: supernatural. not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material.

How does Aristotle define metaphysics?

Metaphysics, for Aristotle, was the study of nature and ourselves. In this sense he brings metaphysics to this world of sense experience–where we live, learn, know, think, and speak. Metaphysics is the study of being qua being, which is, first, the study of the different ways the word “be” can be used.

Who are the metaphysicians?

In academic circles, a metaphysician is a philosopher whose area of study or expertise is metaphysics: the study of the fundamental nature of reality and existence itself. ‘Meta-‘ means beyond or transcending; so meta-physical means that which lies beyond, underlies or transcends the physical realm/world/reality.

Is Feser’s introduction to scholastic metaphysics worth a read?

This review just scratches the surface of Feser’s admirable introduction to scholastic metaphysics. It is refreshing, even inspiring, to see great philosophical work which takes these old medieval thinkers seriously enough to consider whether they might have got a few things right.

What do you think about Feser’s analysis?

2.Feser’s causal “analysis” is hopelessly shallow, obsolete, and illusory. 3.A-T got almost nothing right beyond a few basic observations of our apparent sensory reality that are obvious to nearly all of us. Feser bases his work or uses as a starting point or resource A-T notions and thus gets a very great deal of things wrong.

Does Feser criticise the scientific method?

If you had read the book you would also be aware that Dr Feser does not criticise the scientific method itself, namely the idea that science (as thought of the physical sciences alone) is the sole source of knowledge. You would also know Feser has also responded to Rosenburg in the book (and indeed on this blog).

What do you think of Feser’s caricature of scientism?

1.Feser’s caricature of scientism is a strawman and he only refutes that strawman, not what Rosenberg actually said. 2.Feser’s causal “analysis” is hopelessly shallow, obsolete, and illusory. 3.A-T got almost nothing right beyond a few basic observations of our apparent sensory reality that are obvious to nearly all of us.