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  The Scope of Atheism
Atheism is commonly considered to be a threat to the individual and society.
Metaphysics is the study of reality, of existence as such -- in contrast to specialized studies of existence, such as physics (inanimate matter) and biology (living entities).
We will often have occasion to refer to the metaphysical and epistemological implications of theistic belief, so the reader is urged to keep these categories in mind.
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 Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online : Free will
The Centre for Meaning and Metaphysical Studies promotes and encourages quality research into the philosophical study of metaphysics and meaning through colloquia, reading groups and international conferences.
This page presents the full text of 24 Metaphysics papers presented at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts from August 10–15, 1998.
The aim of the SSPP is to promote philosophy and psychology in the southern section of the United States.
www.rep.routledge.com /article-links/V014   (1370 words)

  
 The Huxley File § 3 A Sort of Firm
Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S. A club that did not succeed was the Thorough Club, a society for the propagation of honesty in all parts of the world (1862), Huxley its chairman, Kingsley its vice-chairman.
While most of the clubs and societies Huxley belonged to were stocked with scientists, the Metaphysical Society was a different sort of firm, for it consisted of specialists of many different interests, such as Tennyson, John Ruskin, Frederic Harrison, and Cardinal Manning.
In addresses he delivered as President of the Geological Society and of the Royal Society, Huxley took account of the expirations (the "calamities") of recently deceased members.
aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/guide3.html   (2987 words)

  
 Kant on the Web: Secondary E-Texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
'Kant's Theocentric Metaphysics', Analele Universitatii Din Timisoara 4 (1992), pp.55-70.
Mary Gregor's translation of Kant's The Metaphysics of Morals.
Blinderman and D. Joyce, The Views of Hume, Kant, and Whately upon the Logical Basis of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul, Metaphysical Society (November 17, 1870).
www.hkbu.edu.hk /~ppp/K2texts.html   (2557 words)

  
 InteLex Past Masters - Henry Sidgwick: Works & Correspondence Bibliography
The Relation of Psychogony to Metaphysics and Ethics.
Address to the Society for Psychical Research on the Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism.
Concessions and Questions for the Synthetic Society, in The Wilfrid Wards and the Transition, edited by Maisie Ward.
www.nlx.com /titles/titlsibi.htm   (2221 words)

  
 Geographic Categories: An Ontological Investigation
Barry Smith, Carving Up Reality in M. Gorman and J. Sanford (eds.), Categories: Proceedings of the Conference of the American Metaphysical Society, Buffalo, March 2001, in preparation.
GOL: A General Ontological Language in Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (eds.), Formal Ontology and Information Systems, New York: ACM Press, 34-46.
Environmental Metaphysics, in U. Meixner, ed., Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age.
www.geog.buffalo.edu /ncgia/ontology   (716 words)

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