CARTESIAN PERSONAL METAPHYSICS by A. M. Malivskyi

“…To consider the personal nature of Cartesian metaphysics. Its implementation involves: a) outlining methodological changes in the philosophy of the twentieth century; b) analysis of ways to interpret anthropological component of philosophizing in Descartes studies; c) appeal to Descartes’ texts to clarify the authentic form of his interpretation of metaphysics. …”
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Rosmini's metaphysical evidence for the existence of God by N. P. Swartz

“… Rosmini is of the opinion that the soul consists of both a bodily (natural) and a godly component. Both components unite in humankind. …”
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DECONSTRUCTION OF THE METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND STRUCTURALISM by A. A. Polivoda

“…Purpose of the work is a description of critical position of J. Derrida on metaphysics of presence in phenomenological and structuralist discourses. …”
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Education Phenomenon in Terms of “Metaphysics of Man” by G. K. Saikina

“…The novel nature of the study is in the substantiation of the heuristic meaning of the comparative analysis of the institutional and metaphysical dimensions (modes of existence, aspects) of the educational process, which appeared to us in the form of individual models of education. …”
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METAPHYSICAL REVOLUTION OF DESCARTES AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROJECT by Anatolii M. Malivskyi

“…During creation of metaphysical anthropology the attention of the thinker is drawn by the fact of impossibility of comprehension of human nature by means of natural-science rationality and expediency of the appeal to metaphysics. …”
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Modal Metaphysics and the Priority of Causes in Hume's Treatise by Ariel Melamedoff

“…Hume’s conclusion is that simultaneous causation is metaphysically impossible, but one of his premises relies on a mere natural impossibility (that every beginning of existence requires a cause). …”
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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE METAPHYSICAL IMPRESSIONS (SUMMING UP THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE) by Ludmila B. Logunova, Yuriy Yu. Petrunin

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Émilie Du Châtelet’s Metaphysics in Light of her Concept of ‘a Being’ by Clara Carus

“…This paper argues that Du Châtelet’s metaphysical foundations are not meant to ground the science of physics alone, and instead are to lay the foundation for all knowledge of the natural world. …”
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THE CRISIS OF THE ARCHAICAL THINKING OF THE PRINCIPAL METAPHYSICAL PROBLEM OF THE ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY by Vytautas Rimvydas Rimvydas Litvinas

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MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S METAPHYSICAL QUESTION 1935-1937: GENESIS AND CONSEQUENCES. PART ONE by Юрій МАРИНЧУК

“…He draws our attention to the fact that not only man owes his truth to the co-existence of life, but also the thing with its nature. The purpose of this article is to investigate the foundations of poetic language of creation as a way of presentation of metaphysics in art. …”
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THE DEMAND FOR A NEW CONCEPT OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE EARLY MODERN AGE: THE DOCTRINE OF HUME by A. M. Malivskyi

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The moral problem is a Hume problem by Green Karen

“…In virtue of our nature as social beings we are motivated to do what is approved of by other members of our society. …”
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METHAPHYSICS OF DEATH PENALTY by V. E. Gromov

“…The paper studies the problem of death penalty justifiableness in terms of democratic society from the metaphysical viewpoint. Philosophical argumentation to justify death penalty is proposed as opposed to the common idea of inhuman and uncivilized nature of court practice of sentencing to death. …”
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Physicalism and moral responsibility: presentation of derivative consequence argument by B. V. Faul

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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), from Unitarianism to Agnosticism by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

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PHILOSOPHICAL DOCTRINE OF KANT AS FINDING AUTHENTICAL FORMS OF ANTROPOLOGICAL METAPHYSICAL ФИЛОСОФСКОЕ УЧЕНИЕ КАНТА КАК ПОИСКИ АУТЕНТИЧНОЙ ФОРМЫ АНТРОПОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ МЕТАФИЗИКИ ФІЛОСО... by A. M. Malivskyi

“…<br>Contemporary culture needs metaphysical understanding of human nature based on the philosophical heritage of Kant. …”
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Virtue Depends on Natural Law and Divine Commands by J. Caleb Clanton, Kraig Martin

“…Our task in this paper is to show that neither of the standard approaches to explaining the metaphysical foundations of morality within the Christian tradition—natural law theory and divine command theory—are sufficient to fix this incompleteness. …”
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VOLTAIRE’S PHILOSOPHY: HUMAN NATURE AND INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION by Yu. Zimaryova

“…The purpose of the article is to determine and reconsider Voltaire’s ideas concerning religion and human nature. In order to achieve this purpose it is necessary to complete the following tasks: to analyse academic literature on Voltaire’s interpretation of the phenomenon of religion; to expose Voltaire’s basic ideas about human nature; to substantiate the importance of anthropological approach to the phenomenon of religion with the ideas of Voltaire’s philosophical works. …”
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