Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and
chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem …

According to a certain, familiar way of dividing up the business of philosophy, made popular
by Quine, ontology is concerned with the question of what entities exist (a task that is often …

'Metaontology,'writes Ross Cameron (2008: 1),'is the new black'. He is right, but for reasons
that run deeper than mere philosophical fashion. Metaphysics has been suspect at least …

One activity for which philosophers are perhaps best known is having disputes with one
another. Some non-philosophers, and increasingly many philosophers, believe that a …

Natural necessities, if there are any, are special. They are unlike normal empirical facts in
that they must (in at least some sense of 'must') be true. Compare 'the stone must fall if …