Introduction

taking metaphysics seriously

William Sweet

1-19

Does being have a nature?

(or metaphysics as a science of the real)

Lawrence Dewan

23-59

Logic and metaphysics in German philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel

Riccardo Pozzo

61-74

Metaphysics, mathematics, and pre-established harmony

Richard Feist

75-90

The integration of history and metaphysics

Kenneth L. Schmitz

93-100

Suffering, metaphysics, and Nietzsche's path to the holy

Daniel R. Ahern

111-125

Can "creation" be a metaphysical concept?

Peter Harris

127-136

Metaphysics West and East

Bosanquet and Sankara

Gautam Satapathy

137-156

Metaphysics and the origins of Arendt's account of evil and human freedom

Charles Le Page

159-179

Agents, causes, and explanations

the idea of a metaphysical system

Leslie Armour

181-207

Speculative and analytical philosophy, theories of existence, and the generalization of the mathematical function

James Bradley

209-226

Jacques Maritain and the metaphysics of Plato

229-248

Metaphysics and idealism

W. J. Mander

249-264

Empiricism

principles and problems

Fred Wilson

265-300

Metaphysics as "de insolubilibus"

Martin M. Tweedale

303-315

Designing metaphysics

Elizabeth Trott

317-326