Metaphysics
The Deepest Questions of Reality, Including the Nature of Existence, Free Will, Time, Causation, and Whether the World Is What It Appears to BeBy Alex Omberg
Length3h 44m
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Why is there something rather than nothing? Uncover the deepest mysteries of reality.
Have you ever wondered if time is an illusion? Or if your choices are truly your own? Everything you think you know about reality is about to change.
Most of us go through life accepting the world exactly as it appears. We trust our senses. We believe we make our own decisions. We assume time ticks steadily forward. But beneath the surface of everyday life lies a hidden architecture that dictates our laws, our science, and our very sense of self. This is the realm of metaphysics.
In Metaphysics: The Deepest Questions of Reality, Alex Omberg takes you on an exhilarating journey to the very limits of human thought. Stripping away dense academic jargon, this definitive guide translates millennia of philosophical debate into an accessible, mind-expanding exploration of existence.
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GenrePhilosophy, Science and Nature
Length3 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction: The Science of First Things
3The Endurance of Metaphysical Questions
4The Map of Reality
5The Method of Metaphysics
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6Why Metaphysics Matters
7The Shape of This Volume
8Chapter 1: The Furniture of the World
9Substance and Property
10The Problem of Universals
11The Nominalist Challenge
12Quine's Question
13The Ontological Landscape
14What Hangs on Ontology
15Chapter 2: Being and Nothingness
16The Concept of Nothingness
17Necessary and Contingent Existence
18The Ontological Argument Revisited
19Heidegger and the Question of Being
20Why Anything Exists
21The Existential Weight
22Chapter 3: The Thread and the Knot
23Continuity and Change
24Sortal Concepts and Essence
25Personal Identity
26Reductionism and What Matters in Survival
27Temporal Parts and Persistence
28The Philosophical Residue
29Chapter 4: The River and the Block
30The A-Theory: Time as Passage
31The B-Theory: The Block Universe
32Presentism and Eternalism
33The Direction of Time
34Time Travel and Closed Causal Loops
35Temporal Experience and Metaphysics
36Chapter 5: The Invisible Chain
37Hume's Challenge
38Regularity and Counterfactuals
39Probabilistic Causation
40Interventionism and Manipulation
41The Disappearance of Causation
42Causal Direction and Time's Arrow
43The Puzzle Remains
44Chapter 6: The Fork in the Road
45The Determinist Thesis
46Libertarian Free Will
47Compatibilism: Freedom Within Determinism
48The Consequence Argument
49Neuroscience and the Challenge to Agency
50What Hangs in the Balance
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