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Question Is anyone doing any serious work in Metaphysics these days? Anything accessible to someone with some philosophy background but not a professional? Thanks!

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January 6, 2009

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You might look at Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, edited by Ted Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman.

There is also a lot of metaphysically-relevant work being done by philosophers (and others) on ontologies. Ontology, as philosophers classically have understood that term, is the study of what there is, or of being. Ontologies, as that term is used by researchers in artificial intelligence, refers to what might be called the "syntax" of the world: A structured catalog of what there is, what properties things have, what relations they stand in to each other, etc. Link to the websites of the National Center for Ontological Research and of AI Topics/Ontologies , as well as the website of my philosophy colleague Barry Smith, for more information.

Question Is anyone doing any serious work in Metaphysics these days? Anything accessible to someone with some philosophy background but not a professional? Thanks! Accepted:January 6, 2009

Question Is anyone doing any serious work in Metaphysics these days? Anything accessible to someone with some philosophy background but not a professional? Thanks!

Accepted:
January 6, 2009