This paper investigates the concept of the “final layer of reality” at the intersection of contemporary physics and metaphysics. While everyday experience suggests a stable and intuitive structure of reality, modern physics challenges this view by revealing that matter, space, and time are not fundamentally as they appear. Building on insights from theoretical physics and metaphysical analysis, t…
The stable property cluster view of natural kinds leaves the metaphysical structure of natural kinds open. The positive corollary of this feature is freedom from explaining the nature of problematic entities and that it affords natural kind status and flexibility. However, some worries are raised against this feature; the metaphysical structure of natural kinds is required for explaining their ep…
Metaphysics is one of the oldest and most fundamental branches of philosophy. At its core, it asks the deepest questions we can ask about reality itself. What exists? What does it mean to exist? What is the nature of being, time, space, causation, and possibility? These questions go beyond what we can observe directly and invite us to think about the basic structure of the world and our place wit…
