PhilosophyBites: Kit Fine -- What is Metaphysics

http://hw.libsyn.com/p/b/e/0/be08962b016b2ac1/Kit_Fine_on_What_is_Metaphysics_.mp3?sid=59b90f7008e68bd71abcb04382bef77a&l_sid=18828&l_eid=&l_mid=2852521&expiration=1325469798&hwt=2ff954bce2b80c756eccd8dfb823fadd

• The philosophical inquiry into the nature of reality
• similar to mathematics in that it is a priori
• most people can't not think about metaphysical questions, so they are of interest in themselves. this is why metaphysics "matters" 
• distinction between primary and secondary qualities is an important landmark in metaphysics which was significant to science 

Kit Fine -- at NYU, formerly UCLA, educated at Oxford 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Fine

CV http://silverdialogues.fas.nyu.edu/docs/CP/299/fine_cv.pdf