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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.
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: An Aristotelian Revival?; Edward Feser 2. The Phainomenological Method in Aristotle's Metaphysics ; Christopher Shields 3. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics; Stephen Boulter 4. Metaphysics as the First Philosophy; Tuomas E. Tahko 5. Two Doctrines of Categories in Aristotle: Topics, Categories , and Metaphysics ; Robert Bolton 6. Grounding, Analogy and Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Idea of the Good; Allan Silverman 7. Essence, Modality and the Master Craftsman; Stephen Williams and David Charles 8. Being, Unity, and Identity in the Fregean and Aristotelian Traditions; Gyula Klima 9. Substance, Independence and Unity; Kathrin Koslicki 10. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Brief Exposition and Defence; E. J. Lowe 11. Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation; David S. Oderberg 12. Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein; Edward Feser 13. Incomposite Being; Lloyd P. Gerson 14. Aristotle's Divine Cause; Fred D. Miller, Jr. Index
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Robert Bolton, Stephen Boulter, David Charles, Lloyd P. Gerson, Gyula Klima, Kathrin Koslicki, E. J. Lowe, Fred D. Miller, Jr., David S. Oderberg, Christopher Shields, Allan Silverman, Tuomas E. Tahko, and Stephen Williams.
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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.
