Metaphysics : Aristotelian, scholastic, analytic / Lukáš Novák ... [et al.], (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novák, Lukáš.

Series:

Contemporary Scholasticism

Contemporary Scholasticism ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 propos

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND

What is an Ontological Category? / Inwagen, Peter van

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

SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE

What Is Constituent Ontology? / Loux, Michael J.

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

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

SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT

Essence and Ontology / Lowe, E. J.

An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars / Novák, Lukáš

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

SECTION IV: EXISTENCE

Existential Inertia / Feser, Edward

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

SECTION V: MODALITIES

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

Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility / Peroutka, David

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

SECTION VI: PREDICATION

The Interpretation(s) of Predication / Meixner, Uwe

Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication / Sousedík, Stanislav

Authors

General Index

Index of Persons

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

3-11-032244-7

OCLC:

1013948907