ABSTRACT

This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in the pursuit of that aim.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter |26 pages

A new metaphysical strategy

Lessons learned from the philosophy of time

chapter |26 pages

The representational fallacy

Or how not to do ontology

chapter |27 pages

The methodological map

chapter |11 pages

The overlooked strategy in practice

Moral discourse