New directions in metaphysics and ontology

E. J. Lowe

pp. 273-288

in: Axiomathes 18 (3), 2008.

Abstract

A personal view is presented of how metaphysics and ontology stand at the beginning of the twenty-first century, in the light of developments during the twentieth. It is argued that realist metaphysics, with serious ontology at its heart, has a promising future, provided that its adherents devote some time and effort to countering the influences of both its critics and its false friends.