Introduction

1. What is metaphysics?

a. Not empirical.

b. Concerned with “the fundamental structure of reality as a whole.”

c. Argument for the necessity of metaphysics.

2. Challenges to metaphysics:

a. Metaphysical relativism.

b. Naturalism.

c. Kant’s challenge.

d. Objection to the non-empirical character of metaphysics.

e. Is knowledge of necessity and possibility itself possible?

3. Ontology. Basic ontological categories.