Metaphysics : : Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic /

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

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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 mod...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.) :; Zahlr Abb.
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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

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