Metaphysics - the Philosophy of Reality
Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and body, substance and accident, events and causation.
Ayer - Languge, Truth and Logic
Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge
Descartes - Meditations
Freud - Psychoanalysis
Hobbes - Leviathan
Hume - Human Understanding
Kant - Critiques of Reason
Kierkegaard - Either Or
Leibniz - Monadology
Locke - Human Understanding
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism
Schopenhauer - World as Will and Idea
Wittgenstein - Tractatus
Metaphysics is also taken to include the big cosmological questions of why and how the universe exists, fundamental to which are;
Copernicus - The Revolutions
Galileo - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Newton - Principia
Einstein's Relativity
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