Reality: Fundamental Topics is Metaphysics

In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in ancient, Kantian, post-Kantian, and contemporary philosophy, and shows them to unsuccessful. He draws the topics of his selective investigation of metaphysics partly from the work of Kant, whom he con...