Metaphysics : : Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic / / ed. by Lukáš Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík, David Svoboda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Faller, Mark,; Feser, Edward,; Inman, Ross,; Inwagen, Peter van,; Klima, Gyula,; Loux, Michael J.,; Lowe, E. J.,; Meixner, Uwe,; Novotný, Daniel D.,; Novák, Lukáš,; Peroutka, David,; Peterson, Anne Siebels,; Runggaldier, Edmund,; Sousedík, Prokop,; Sousedík, Stanislav,; Svoboda, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Novotný, Daniel D.,; Novák, Lukáš,; Sousedík, Prokop,; Svoboda, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary Scholasticism , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.) :; Zahlr Abb.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND -- What is an Ontological Category? -- Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics -- SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE -- What Is Constituent Ontology? -- Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account -- Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now -- SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT -- Essence and Ontology -- An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars -- The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident? -- SECTION IV: EXISTENCE -- Existential Inertia -- Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms -- SECTION V: MODALITIES -- Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on “Powers” -- Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility -- The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz’ Mathematical Framing of the Compossible -- SECTION VI: PREDICATION -- The Interpretation(s) of Predication -- Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication -- Authors -- General Index -- Index of Persons