Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Metaphysics

Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic

Edited by: Lukáš Novák , Daniel D. Novotný , Prokop Sousedík and David Svoboda

Volume 1 in the series Contemporary Scholasticism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110322446

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About this book

Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passé. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various traditional metaphysical topics, such as modality, truth, causality, etc. which resulted in the emergence of various forms of analytic metaphysics. The new forms of metaphysics differ from its traditional forms mostly in their methodology (we may notice various applications of contemporary formal logical techniques) and in the range of proposed solutions to particular problems. Besides these and other differences, however, there are also many similarities and there are even some who intentionally develop traditional metaphysical themes using the contemporary analytical methods. All these developments call for detailed exploration, which is the general goal of the present publication Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic. The publication is the fruit of the conference which took place in Prague in 2010 and which had for its aim to bring together those willing to explore relations between the traditional and contemporary concerns, both from among the leading analytic philosophers working in metaphysics and the historians of philosophy devoted to the study of the metaphysical tradition. The specific focus of the conference was a re-examination of topics such as categories, metaphysical structure, substance and accident, existence, modalities, and predication.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND
What is an Ontological Category? Peter van Inwagen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics Daniel D. Novotný Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE
What Is Constituent Ontology? Michael J. Loux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account Anne Siebels Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now Ross Inman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT
Essence and Ontology E. J. Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars Lukáš Novák Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident? Prokop Sousedík and David Svoboda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
SECTION IV: EXISTENCE
Existential Inertia Edward Feser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms Gyula Klima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
SECTION V: MODALITIES
Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on “Powers” Edmund Runggaldier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility David Peroutka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz’ Mathematical Framing of the Compossible Mark Faller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
SECTION VI: PREDICATION
The Interpretation(s) of Predication Uwe Meixner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication Stanislav Sousedík Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 283
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr Abb.
Keywords: Metaphysik; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110322446

Hardcover

Published: June 5, 2012
ISBN: 9783110322163