Metaphysical Society of America (MSA) is a philosophical organization founded by Paul Weiss in 1950. As stated in its constitution, "The purpose of the...
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Mereological essentialism Mereological nihilism Metaphysical naturalism Metaphysical nihilism Metaphysical solipsism Modal fictionalism Modal realism Moderate...
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Jorge J. E. Gracia (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1992 for Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics (1988) Aquinas Medal, awarded...
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John Joseph Compton (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University (retired in 1998). Compton was a president of the Metaphysical Society...
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Nicholas Rescher (redirect from Rescher's law of logarithmic returns)
Society of North America, American Metaphysical Society, American Philosophical Association, and Charles S. Peirce Society. He was the founder of American Philosophical...
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Paul Weiss (philosopher) (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
July 5, 2002) was an American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America. Paul Weiss grew up...
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Daniel Dombrowski (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
of the journal Process Studies, and is a past president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2018–19). Dombrowski has authored more than twenty books...
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unreliability of metaphysical theorizing points to the deep and lasting disagreements about metaphysical issues, suggesting a lack of overall progress...
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Lenn E. Goodman (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
believes as the most coherent metaphysical approach to philosophical speculation. Goodman also supported Spinoza's reconciliations of classical oppositions....
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Wilfrid Sellars (redirect from Myth of the Given)
president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1977. He was a founder of the journal Philosophical Studies. Sellars is well known as a critic of foundationalist...
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School of Continental Philosophy Metaphysical Society Metaphysical Society of America National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical...
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William Desmond (philosopher) (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
Former president of the Hegel Society of America (1990–1992) and the Metaphysical Society of America (1995), Desmond is professor of philosophy at the...
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Ernan McMullin (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
Metaphysical Society of America (1974) and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He served as the chair of the History and Philosophy of Science...
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John Edwin Smith (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
Division, the American Theological Society, the Metaphysical Society of America, the Hegel Society of America and the C.S. Peirce Society. Fox, Margalit...
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MSA (section Schools and societies)
Marshall Plan Metaphysical Society of America, a society promoting the study of philosophy and metaphysics Microscopy Society of America, a society for the...
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Thomas R. Flynn (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
an American philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is a former president of the Metaphysical Society...
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Metametaphysics -- Metaphysical naturalism -- Metaphysical nihilism -- Metaphysical Society -- Metaphysical Society of America -- Metaphysics -- Michael Devitt...
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Robert Cummings Neville (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
president of the American Academy of Religion, of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, of the Metaphysical Society of America, of the Association...
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Stanley Rosen (redirect from Mask of Enlightenment)
in Paris. He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1991. Rosen's first two books, a study of Plato's Symposium and Nihilism: A...
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is an American philosopher and Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy at Williams College. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2014)...
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Peter Anthony Bertocci (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of...
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Robert Brumbaugh (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
was an American philosopher and a professor of medieval philosophy at Yale University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. 1962-73...
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John F. Wippel (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
September 2023) was an American Catholic priest of the Diocese of Steubenville. He was a leading authority on the metaphysical thought of Thomas Aquinas. He...
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Richard Velkley (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
former associate editor of The Review of Metaphysics (1997–2006) and a former president of the Metaphysical Society of America (2017–18). Velkley's writing...
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Daniel O. Dahlstrom (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
the Thought of Kant, Hegel, and their Contemporaries. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press CUA, 2008. Heidegger’s Concept of Truth. Cambridge:...
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Rudolf Allers (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
USA) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and academic. Rudolf Allers was born in Vienna on January 13, 1883. He was the son of a doctor, Mark Allers(1837–1894...
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William Ernest Hocking (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
more. In 1958 he served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He led a highly influential study of missions in mainline Protestant churches...
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Robert Sokolowski (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Sokolowski's philosophical research is focused primarily on the discipline of phenomenology...
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Thomas Langan (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
Thomas Langan (1929 – May 25, 2012) was an American philosopher and president of the Metaphysical Society of America from 1982 to 1983. Langan was a lifelong...
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Charles Hartshorne (category Presidents of the Metaphysical Society of America)
He served as president of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1955. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975. Hartshorne...
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