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Sixteen prominent scholars offer fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition and meaning; his understanding of being and the categories; his models of explanation and causation; and his accounts of modality, space, and change. No knowledge of ancient Greek is assumed.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Definition, Meaning, and Language
- 1: David Bronstein: A Puzzle in Aristotle's Theory of Definition
- 2: Marko Malink: Antisthenes on Definition: Metaphysics H.3
- 3: S. G. Williams: Focality, Analogy, and the Articulation of Concepts
- 4: The late Paul Snowdon: David Charles on Wittgenstein, Aristotle, and Artisans
- Part II: Categories, Substance, and Essence
- 5: Verity Harte: Plato's Butcher: Questions about the Metaphysics of Classification
- 6: Jennifer Whiting: Non-Substance Individuals in Aristotle's Categories
- 7: Christof Rapp: Essential Predication in Aristotle's Categories: A Defence
- 8: Michail Peramatzis: Aristotle on How Essence Grounds Necessity
- Part III: Form, Matter, and Teleology
- 9: Mary Louise Gill: Predicative Hylomorphism in Metaphysics Z
- 10: Lindsay Judson: Aristotelian Matter
- 11: T. K. Johansen: Matter-Involving Form and Hypothetical Necessity in Aristotle's De Anima
- 12: James G. Lennox: Life, Agency, and Value
- Part IV: Modality, Change, and Space
- 13: Kei Chiba: Reflections on Aristotle's Modal Ontology
- 14: Frank A. Lewis: How Aristotle Understands Change: A Reading of Physics 3.1-3
- 15: Ursula Coope: Aristotle: Processes and Continuants
- 16: Vassilis Karasmanis: Why is Space Discontinuous? De Lineis Insecabilibus 968b5-22
About the author
David Bronstein is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023-2026). He previously held positions at the University of New South Wales, Georgetown University, Boston University, and the University of Oxford. He is the author of Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: the Posterior Analytics (OUP, 2016) and several articles on Plato and Aristotle.
Thomas Kjeller Johansen studied Philosophy and Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he also attained his PhD. He subsequently taught in the departments of Classics and Philosophy at Bristol, Edinburgh, and Oxford, before moving to the University of Oslo in 2016.
Michail Peramatzis took both a BA in Classics and Philosophy and an MSt in Philosophy at the University of Athens. After two years in the Hellenic Navy, he completed his DPhil at Christ Church, Oxford. Before taking up his current position he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church and a Lectureship in Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast.
Summary
Sixteen prominent scholars offer fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition and meaning; his understanding of being and the categories; his models of explanation and causation; and his accounts of modality, space, and change. No knowledge of ancient Greek is assumed.
