Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics

Author: Tuomas E. Tahko

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1139502697

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Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories, the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence, substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for scholars and advanced students who are interested in the foundations and development of philosophy.

Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda
Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda

Author: Michael Frede

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780198237648

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A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focusof the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Symposium, each of Lambda's ten chapters was taken in turn as the subject of a session at which a specially written paper was read to and discussed by the assembled symposiasts. (The ninth chapter commanded twosessions by dint of its particular difficulty.) The papers have been revised in the light of discussion, and are now offered to a wider audience as a discursive commentary on points of particular philosophical interest covering all of Lambda. Michael Frede's extensive Introduction aims to give abroader view of Lambda as a whole and the problems it raises, and thus to provide the context for the discussion of each of the chapters. This volume will be a resource of great value and interest for anyone working on ancient metaphysics and theology.

The Metaphysics
The Metaphysics

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-05-27

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0141912014

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The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms, and in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? And are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in The Metaphysics - of 'substance' and associated concepts of matter and form, essence and accident, potentiality and actuality - have had a profound and enduring influence, and laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy.

Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Author: Theodore Scaltsas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780801476358

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In this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.

Metaphysics
Metaphysics

Author: Aristotle

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0199682984

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Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics
Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

Author: E. Feser

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-07-12

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1137367903

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Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.

Substantial Knowledge
Substantial Knowledge

Author: C. D. C. Reeve

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1603840141

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In this groundbreaking work, C. D. C. Reeve uses a fundamental problem--the Primacy Dilemma--to explore Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, dialectic, philosophy of mind, and theology in a new way. At a time when Aristotle is most often studied piecemeal, Reeve attempts to see him both in detail and as a whole, so that it is from detailed analysis of hundreds of particular passages, drawn from dozens of Aristotelian treatises, and translated in full that his overall picture of Aristotle emerges. Primarily a book for philosophers and advanced students with an interest in the fundamental problems with which Aristotle is grappling, Substantial Knowledge's clear, non-technical and engaging style will appeal to any reader eager to explore Aristotle’s difficult but extraordinarily rewarding thought.

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Aristotle and the Metaphysics

Author: Vasilis Politis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1134529791

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Aristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the text. The book introduces and assesses Aristotle's life and the background to the Metaphysics, the ideas and text of the Metaphysics and Aristotle's philosophical legacy.

The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā'
The Reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics in Avicenna's Kitāb al-Šifā'

Author: Amos Bertolacci

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 9047408713

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The systematic comparison of Avicenna’s Ilāhiyyāt of the Šifā' with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, accomplished for the first time in the present volume, provides a detailed account of Avicenna’s reworking of the epistemological profile and contents of the Metaphysics and a comprehensive investigation of this latter’s transmission in pre-Avicennian Greek and Arabic philosophy.

Doing and Being
Doing and Being

Author: Jonathan Beere

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0199206708

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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "actuality" and "activity" as translations of energeia, and by working out an analogical conception of energeia. This approach enables Beere to discern a hitherto unnoticed connection between Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta, and to give satisfying interpretations of the major claims that Aristotle makes in Metaphysics Theta, the claim that energeia is prior in being to capacity (Theta 8) and the claim that any eternal principle must be perfectly good (Theta 9).