Metaphysics has never had a “fun” reputation. Many people—if they’ve even heard of the M-word— tend to associate it with woozy, abstract lectures about time and space that spiral into confusion and ...

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 ...

The other day I went to a talk about the fall and revival of metaphysics, given by Sebastian Kolodziejczyk at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Metaphysics these days has a bad ...

Paul Laffoley, “The Kali-Yuga: The End of the Universe at 424826 A.D.” (detail) (1965), oil, acrylic, vinyl lettering, and x-ray on canvas, 73 3/4″ x 73 3/8″. Subject: The Night of Dissolution and the ...