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This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of
aitía. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about
aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy.
List of contents
Introduction
Alberto Ross 1. Note on the original meaning of Greek aitios
David Lévystone 2. What good is the Form of the Good?
Mary Margaret McCabe 3. That's What Makes the World Go Round: Causation in the Myth in the
Statesman Saloni de Souza and Daniel Vázquez 4. Chance, Necessity and Demiurgic Causation in the
Timaeus Viktor Ilievski 5. Causality and Explanation in Aristotle:
logos,
eidos and
tropos Alberto Ross 6. Aristotle
with prime matter
Cristina Viano 7. Aristotle on the efficiency of accidental causes
José María Llovet Abascal 8. The Relevance of Environmental Conditions as Causes for Animal Generation in Aristotle
María-Elena García-Peláez 9. Aristotle's causes and the problem of the necessity of our actions
Carlo Natali 10. Theories of Causation in Early Stoicism
Daniel Vázquez 11. The scientific epistemology of al-Nä¿¿m
Michael Chase 12. Recovering Causality? Ibn Taymiyya on the Creation of the World
Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
About the author
Alberto Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Universidad Panamericana, Mexico. His works include
The Causality of the Prime Mover in Metaphysics ¿ (2016);
Causality, Nature and Fate in Alexander of Aphrodisias (2016);
The Causality of the Prime Mover in Simplicius (2020); and he coedited the volume
Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition (2022).
Daniel Vázquez is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. He is also a member of the Trinity Plato Centre. He has published in various areas of ancient philosophy, especially on Plato, the Stoics, and the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus. He is coeditor of
Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition (2022) and
Plato on Time and the World (2023).
