Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics

Informationen zum Autor Tuomas E. Tahko is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, specializing in metaphysics and its methodology. He received his Ph.D. from Durham University in 2008 and has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Klappentext The first anthology on metaphysics understood in a neo-Aristotelian manner: metaphysics as the first philosophy. Zusammenfassung This book brings together leading scholars in metaphysics and continues ongoing debates in core topics such as ontological categories! quantification! substance! and metametaphysics! the methodology of metaphysics. It is an excellent resource for advanced students and a must-read for anyone interested in the foundations and development of philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Tuomas E. Tahko; 2. What is metaphysics? Kit Fine; 3. In defence of Aristotelian metaphysics Tuomas E. Tahko; 4. Existence and quantification reconsidered Tim Crane; 5. Identity, quantification, and number Eric T. Olson; 6. Ontological categories Gary Rosenkrantz; 7. Are any kinds ontologically fundamental? Alexander Bird; 8. Are four categories two too many? John Heil; 9. Categories: four and more Peter Simons; 10. Neo-Aristotelianism and substance Joshua Hoffman; 11. Developmental potential Louis M. Guenin; 12. The origin of life and the definition of life Storrs McCall; 13. Essence, necessity and explanation Kathrin Koslicki; 14. No potency without actuality: the case of graph theory David S. Oderberg; 15. A neo-Aristotelian substance ontology: neither relational nor constituent E. J. Lowe.

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• Authors: Tuomas Tahko, Tuomas E. Tahko, Tuomas E. (Postdoctoral Researcher Tahko, TAHKO TUOMAS
• Assisted by: Tuomas Tahko (Editor), Tuomas E. Tahko (Editor), Tahko Tuomas E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2011
• EAN: 9781107000643
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00064-3
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology