The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in
ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world …

Holobionts are symbiotic assemblages composed by a macrobe host (animal or plant) plus
its symbiotic microbiota. In recent years, the ontological status of holobionts has created a …

Hegel opens the first book of his Science of Logic with the statement of a problem:“The
beginning of philosophy must be either something mediated or something immediate, and it …

I discuss what Aristotle means when he say that scientific demonstration must proceed from
necessary principles. I argue that, for Aristotle, scientific demonstration should not be …

This thesis examines metaphysics in order to re-present Māori and indigenous
understandings of Being and deconstruct the notion of mental illness. A holistic …

In the neo-Aristotelian tradition, the category of substance is typically regarded as the most
fundamental of the ontological categories. Substance is the starting point of neo-Aristotelian …

This chapter sets out the case for recognising the complexity of explanatory pathways,
noting how many events in the natural world arise through multiple conjunctive causes. The …

Odera Oruka (1991) defines philosophic sagacity as wisdom philosophy or philosophy of the
wise men of Africa, who are independent, liberal, and non-conformist thinkers, and who …

Though arguments for or against the existence of African metaphysics abound, the view that
it exists is endorsed in this chapter. The task is to show that if African metaphysics exists …

The debate in Metaphysics of Science concerning the interaction between metaphysics and
science has been mainly approached from the perspective of the scientific discipline of …