Bear with me for a second as we enter the philosophical world of metaphysics. The philosophical sub-discipline of metaphysics deals with some of the “typical'' philosophical questions.

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 ...

When talking with second-graders, she says, she could no longer hide behind big words like "epistemology" and "metaphysics," or name-drop philosophers. "I had moments of being like ...

Metaphysics is the study of reality and its nature. Raising fundamental questions about time, matter, space, identity, action, objects, chance, causation and freedom, metaphysical inquiry underlies ...

That's what Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, a philosopher at the University of British Columbia, has been doing for the past year or so as part of a project titled "The Metaphysics of Love." Short answer ...