Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

by Feser, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780230360914
• ISBN10: 0230360912
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology. Though grounded in careful exegesis of Aristotle's writings, the volume aims to demonstrate the continuing relevance of Aristotelian ideas to contemporary philosophical debate.

The contributors are Robert Bolton, Stephen Boulter, David Charles, Edward Feser, Lloyd Gerson, Gyula Klima, Kathrin Koslicki, E. J. Lowe, Fred D. Miller, Jr., David S. Oderberg, Christopher Shields, Allan Silverman, Tuomas Tahko, and Stephen Williams

Author Biography

Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: An Aristotelian Revival?; Edward Feser
2. The Phainomenological Method in Aristotle's Metaphysics; Christopher Shields
3. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics; Stephen Boulter
4. Metaphysics as the First Philosophy; Tuomas E. Tahko
5. Two Doctrines of Categories in Aristotle: Topics, Categories, and Metaphysics; Robert Bolton
6. Grounding, Analogy and Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Idea of the Good; Allan Silverman
7. Essence, Modality and the Master Craftsman; Stephen Williams and David Charles
8. Being, Unity, and Identity in the Fregean and Aristotelian Traditions; Gyula Klima
9. Substance, Independence and Unity; Kathrin Koslicki
10. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics: A Brief Exposition and Defence; E. J. Lowe
11. Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation; David S. Oderberg
12. Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein; Edward Feser
13. Incomposite Being; Lloyd P. Gerson
14. Aristotle's Divine Cause; Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Index