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metaphysician

met·a·phy·si·cian [ mèttə fi zísh'n ] (plural met·a·phy·si·cians)


noun 
Definition:
 
specialist in metaphysics: a scholar who specializes in the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the nature of being, existence, time and space, and causality

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