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Zusatztext Shields...illuminates and technically formalizes an aspect of ancient dialectics, if not also some small corner of a more profound puzzle of language. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Shields is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Klappentext Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in philosophy and science: that is! to the diversity of ways of being that are denoted by a single concept. Shields here investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy! characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept. Then! in a series of case studies! he examines in detail some of Aristotle's principal applications of homonymy--to the body! sameness and oneness! life! goodness! and being. This first full-length study of a central aspect of Aristotle's thought will interest philosophers working in a number of areas. Zusammenfassung Shields presents a study of a feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts: how a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. He examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity and demonstrates the continuing fruitfulness of his methodology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Homonymy as Such 1: The Varieties of Homonymy 2: The Promises and Problems of Homonymy 3: Signification 4: Core-Dependent Homonymy Part II: Homonymy at Work 5: The Body 6: Oneness, Sameness, and Referential Opacity 7: The Meaning of Life 8: Goodness Afterword: Homonymy's Promise Reconsidered Index Locorum General Index Bibliography
