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Informationen zum Autor Frank A. Lewis was educated at Cambridge University and Princeton University, and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He taught previously at the University of Arizona and at UCLA; he has held visiting positions at Stanford and at UCLA, and has twice held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is the author of Substance and Predication in Aristotle (Cambridge 1991), and co-editor with R. Bolton of Form, Matter, and Mixture in Aristotle (Blackwell, 1996). Recent publications deal mostly with topics in Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy. Klappentext Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics. Zusammenfassung Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION PART ONE. THE SHAPE OF ZETA 1: THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO METAPHYSICS ZETA PART TWO: SUBSTANCE AS SUBJECT 2: SUBJECTS IN METAPHYSICS ZETA 3 PART THREE. SUBSTANCE AS ESSENCE 3: A START ON ESSENCE IN METAPHYSICS ZETA 4 APPENDIX TO CHAPTER THREE. GREEK HOPER AND THE PSEUDO-CLEFT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH 4: SAMENESS, SUBSTITUTION, AND ESSENCE (I). METAPHYSICS Z5, THE SE, AND "A NOSE BY ANY OTHER NAME" AFTERWORD: RESERVATIONS AND RETRACTIONS 5: SAMENESS, SUBSTITUTION, AND ESSENCE (II). THE SE, AND THE PALE MAN ARGUMENT FROM METAPHYSICS Z6 6: PLATO AS FRIEND: IS THERE ROOM FOR PLATO IN AN ARISTOTELIAN THEORY OF ESSENCE? 7: SUBSTANCE AS ESSENCE: THE SHIFT TO "PARTISAN" MODE IN ZETA 10 AND 11 PART FOUR. SUBSTANCE AS UNIVERSAL 8: SUBSTANCE AND UNIVERSALS (I). PLATO AS FOE: SETTING THE STAGE IN ZETA 13 APPENDIX TO CHAPTER EIGHT. MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY AND SOME VERSIONS OF COMPATIBILITY 9: SUBSTANCE AND UNIVERSALS (II). PLATO ON GENUS, SPECIES, AND DIFFERENTIA 10: SUBSTANCE AND UNIVERSALS (III). ZETA 15 AND 16, AND PLATO'S FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE APPENDIX TO CHAPTER TEN. DEFINITION, SUBSTANCE, AND UNIVERSALS: A PUZZLE, AND SOME SPECULATIVE CONCLUSIONS PART FIVE. BACK TO THE DEFINITION OF SUBSTANCE: THE END-GAME 11: THE POSTERIOR ANALYTICS, AND A FRESH APPROACH TO DEFINING SUBSTANCE 12: ARISTOTLE ON THE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ZETA BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ...
