Conceptual engineering is a branch of philosophy that is concerned with assessing
representational devices such as concepts and words. Conceptual engineers looks for the …

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the
repeated application of single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary …

How do we come to know metaphysical truths? How does metaphysical inquiry work? Are
metaphysical debates substantial? These are the questions which characterize …

Material objects extend through space by having different spatial parts in different places.
But how do they persist through time? According to some philosophers, things have …

Here I defend the position that some singular terms for properties are rigid designators,
responding to Stephen P. Schwartz's interesting criticisms of that position. First, I argue that …

Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies
systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique …

The aim of this paper is to explore the view that some ontological disputes are
“metalinguistic negotiations”(to employ a recent term coined by David Plunkett and Timothy …

The debate over persistence is often cast as a disagreement between two rival theories—the
perdurantist theory that objects persist through time by having different temporal parts at …

Since the last decades of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, the use
of metaphysics by philosophers when approaching conceptual problems in biology has …

Metaphysical theories are beautiful. I mean it literally. At the end of this book, I will defend
the view that metaphysical theories possess aesthetic properties and that these play a …