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Informationen zum Autor Michail Peramatzis studied for his BA in Philosophy and Classics at the University of Athens, Greece, and his MA in Philosophy & History of Science at the Athens National Technical University and the University of Athens. From 2002 until 2006 he studied at Christ Church, Oxford University, for his DPhil. He secured a four-year post-doctoral research position at Christ Church as a Junior Research Fellow, during which he published articles on Aristotle's notion of Priority in Substance and views of essence and predication. He is now a Lecturer in Philosophy at the School of Politics, International Studies & Philosophy, in Queen's University, Belfast. Klappentext The idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance. Zusammenfassung The idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction PART I: DEFINITIONAL PRIORITY: FORM, MATTER and COMPOUND 2: Definitional Priority and Definitionally Primary Items 3: Matter within a Form's Essence? 4: Natural Form, Mathematical Form and Platonist Errors 5: Natural Forms as Essentially Matter- and Change-Involving 6: Material and Change-Related Features of a Natural Form's Essence 7: Essentially Enmattered Form as Prior to Matter: A Modest Proposal PART II: ONTOLOGICAL PRIORITY 8: Priority in Nature or in Substance 9: Platonist Ontological Priority 10: Evidence for Priority in Being [PIB] in Metaphysics A.11 11: Ontological Priority of Particular Substances 12: Definitional and Ontological Priority [PIB] 13: Test Cases for Ontological Priority [PIB] 14: Conclusion: Further Problems and Some Suggestions Appendices Bibliography ...
