Peter van Inwagen
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John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Author of Ontology, Identity, and Modality and others.
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Metaphysics, branch of philosophy whose topics in antiquity and the Middle Ages were the first causes of things and the nature of being. In postmedieval philosophy, however, many other topics came to be included under the heading “metaphysics.” (The reasons for this development will be discussed in…
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