The methods of Philosophy deliver a certain sort of philosophical understanding. But those methods are not able – not all on their own – to reveal the truth-value of substantive philosophical claims. This inability plays a key role in this paper’s argument for the conclusion that Philosophy has made a lot of progress despite persisting disagreement among philosophers about substantive philosophical claims. Moreover – so this paper maintains – this disagreement constitutes a welcome intellectual pluralism, allowing those with a wide variety of philosophical views to fully participate in the discipline of Philosophy. This paper then applies the above points to the relation of metaphysics to theology.

Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift, Bd. 73 Nr. 4 (2022)