Metaphysics : Aristotelian, scholastic, analytic / Lukáš Novák ... [and others] (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novák, Lukáš, 1978-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Contemporary scholasticism ; v. 1.

Contemporary scholasticism ; Bd. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--Congresses.

Metaphysics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Books (distributor), 2012.

Summary:

Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passé. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various traditional metaphysical topics, such as modality, truth, causality, etc. which resulted in the emergence of various forms of analytic metaphysics. The new forms of metaphysics differ from its traditional forms mostly in their methodology (we may notice various applications of contemporary formal logical techniques) and in the range of proposed solutions to particular problems. Besides these and other differences, however, there are also many similarities and there are even some who intentionally develop traditional metaphysical themes using the contemporary analytical methods. All these developments call for detailed exploration, which is the general goal of the present publication Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic. The publication is the fruit of the conference which took place in Prague in 2010 and which had for its aim to bring together those willing to explore relations between the traditional and contemporary concerns, both from among the leading analytic philosophers working in metaphysics and the historians of philosophy devoted to the study of the metaphysical tradition. The specific focus of the conference was a re-examination of topics such as categories, metaphysical structure, substance and accident, existence, modalities, and predication. Book jacket.

Contents:

Categories and Beyond

What is an Ontological Category? / Peter van Inwagen Inwagen, Peter van 11

Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics / Daniel D. Novotný Novotný, Daniel D. 25

Metaphysical Stucture

What Is Constituent Ontology? / Michael J. Loux Loux, Michael J. 43

Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account / Anne Siebels Peterson Peterson, Anne Siebels 59

Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now / Ross Inman Inman, Ross 73

Substance & Accident

Essence and Ontology / E.J. Lowe Lowe, E.J. 93

An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars / Lukàš Novák Novák, Lukàš 113

The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident? / Prokop Sousedík Sousedík, Prokop, David Svoboda Svoboda, David 123

Existence

Existential Inertia / Edward Feser Feser, Edward 143

Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms / Gyula Klima Klima, Gyula 169

Modalities

Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on "Powers" / Edmund Runggaldier SJ Runggaldier, Edmund, SJ 185

Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility / David Peroutka OCD Peroutka, David, OCD 195

The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz' Mathematical Framing of the Compossible / Mark Taller Taller, Mark 209

Predication

The Interpretation(s) of Predication / Uwe Meixner Meixner, Uwe 229

Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication / Stanislav Sousedík Sousedík, Stanislav 247.

Notes:

Proceedings of an international conference held in Prague, June 30-July 3, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3868381465

9783868381467

OCLC:

795756025

Publisher Number:

99952921888