Metaphysics

Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of "first principles" and "being" (ontology).

People

• Metaphysics writers
• Aristotle
• Saint Thomas Aquinas, eminent Catholic metaphysician
• Louis-Victor de Broglie
• William Kingdon Clifford
• Donald Davidson
• Gilles Deleuze, who attempted to create a poststructuralist metaphysics.
• René Descartes, famous for the assertion cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am.")
• Albert Einstein, developed the Theory of Relativity, which asserted mathematically that there is no absolute frame of reference
• Charles Fillmore
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, formulated a complex non-Aristotelian metaphysics based on dialectics
• Martin Heidegger
• Werner Heisenberg
• Immanuel Kant
• Saul Kripke
• Gottfried Leibniz
• David Lewis
• George Edward Moore
• Charles Peirce
• Robert M. Pirsig, Author of the popular Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which established the theory of reality known as the Metaphysics of Quality
• Plato
• Max Planck
• Karl Popper
• W. V. Quine
• Ayn Rand
• Carl Reichenbach
• Richard Rorty
• Bertrand Russell
• Jean-Paul Sartre, author of seminal existentialist text Being and Nothingness
• Erwin Schrödinger, quantum mechanic, suggested the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment
• Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching