Modelling Metaphysics The Metaphysics of a Model

This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of insights on the real thing: on the doctrines, the methods, and the epistemology of metaphysics.

Uwe Meixner is a professor of philosophy at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and guest lecturer at the Saints Methodius and Cyril Theological Institute in Minsk, Belarus. He is one of the most distinguished metaphysicians in Germany.