List of topics in metaphysics

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• Key concepts: Time • Experience • Causality • Principle • Value • Self • Action • Intention • Matter • Meaning • Essence • Subject • Object • Unity • Truth • Mind • Necessity • Pattern • Motion • Freedom • Form • Idea •

• Ontology: Being • Category of being • Change • Cogito ergo sum • Dualism • Embodied philosophy • Entity • Existence • Existentialism • Identity • Physical object • Properties • Reality • Relativism • Scientific realism • Subjectivism • Substance theory • Type theory • Universal • Unobservables

• Big Questions:What is the nature of the universe? • What is the meaning of life? • What is being? • What is time? • What is experience? • What is causality? • What are principles? • What is value? • What is the self? • What is action or motion? • What is will? • Whats is matter? • What is meaning? • What are types? •

• Theories: Platonic idealism • Hindu idealism • Scientific materialism • Cartesian dualism • Phenomenalism • Existentialism • Nihilism • Realism • Anti-realism •

• Full list:

• Action (philosophy)
• Action (physics)
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Anti-realism
• Aristotle
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Axiology
• Baruch Spinoza
• Being
• Bertrand Russell
• Cartesian dualism
• Category of being
• Causality
• Change
• Choice
• Cogito ergo sum
• Determinism
• Dimension
• Donald Davidson (philosopher)
• Dualism
• Elea
• Embodied philosophy
• Entity
• Erastes
• Essence
• Existence
• Existentialism
• Experience
• Form
• Freedom
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• George Berkeley
• George Edward Moore
• Gottfried Leibniz
• Greek language
• Hellenic Greece
• Hilary Putnam
• Hindu idealism
• Idea
• Identity (philosophy)
• Immanuel Kant
• Intention
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• John Duns Scotus
• John Locke
• Law of nature
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Martin Heidegger
• Matter
• Meaning
• Melissus of Samos
• Metaphysics
• Mind
• Modality
• MOQ
• Motion
• Motion (physics)
• Necessity
• Newtonian time
• Nihilism
• Number
• Object
• Ontology
• Parmenides
• Pattern
• Perception
• Phenomenalism
• Philosophical realism
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of space and time
• Physical object
• Physicalism
• Plato
• Platonic idealism
• Plotinus
• Poem
• Pre-Socratic
• Preface
• Principle
• Principles
• Properties
• Quantity
• Realism
• Reality
• Relativism
• René Descartes
• Saul Kripke
• School of Elea
• Scientific materialism
• Scientific realism
• Self
• Self (philosophy)
• Sequence
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Solipsism
• Space
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Subject
• Subjectivism
• Substance
• Substance theory
• Teleology
• Theoretical physics
• Theory of types
• Time
• Truth
• Type theory
• Unity
• Universal (metaphysics)
• Universe
• Unobservables
• Value
• W. V. O. Quine
• What is the meaning of life?
• Willard Van Orman Quine
• World (philosophy)
• Zeno of Elea