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This volume provides a rich collection of original essays on Aristotle's metaphysics written by sixteen prominent scholars in the field. Honouring the seminal influence of David Charles to philosophical scholarship, it offers fresh interpretations and assessments of Aristotle's thinking in metaphysics and related areas such as philosophy of language, psychology, natural philosophy, and mathematics. The collection contributes to the recent resurgence of interest in Aristotelian metaphysics, furthering our understanding of Aristotle's seminal contribution to the history of western philosophy. It evaluates key features of Aristotle's metaphysical thinking: his accounts of definition and meaning; his understanding of being and the categories; his models of explanation, causation, and accounts of modality, space, and change. The chapters are written with clarity and attention to the detail of Aristotle's texts but presuppose no knowledge of ancient Greek and can be read with benefit by advanced philosophy students and scholars.

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Author:   David Bronstein (Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia) ,  Thomas Kjeller Johansen (Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo) ,  Michail Peramatzis (Associate Professor, Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford, and the Hinton Clarendon Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Worcester College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9780198908678

ISBN 10:   0198908679
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   20 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Definition, Meaning, and Language 1: David Bronstein: A Puzzle in Aristotle's Theory of Definition 2: Marko Malink: Antisthenes on Definition: Metaphysics H.3 3: S. G. Williams: Focality, Analogy, and the Articulation of Concepts 4: The late Paul Snowdon: David Charles on Wittgenstein, Aristotle, and Artisans Part II: Categories, Substance, and Essence 5: Verity Harte: Plato's Butcher: Questions about the Metaphysics of Classification 6: Jennifer Whiting: Non-Substance Individuals in Aristotle's Categories 7: Christof Rapp: Essential Predication in Aristotle's Categories: A Defence 8: Michail Peramatzis: Aristotle on How Essence Grounds Necessity Part III: Form, Matter, and Teleology 9: Mary Louise Gill: Predicative Hylomorphism in Metaphysics Z 10: Lindsay Judson: Aristotelian Matter 11: T. K. Johansen: Matter-Involving Form and Hypothetical Necessity in Aristotle's De Anima 12: James G. Lennox: Life, Agency, and Value Part IV: Modality, Change, and Space 13: Kei Chiba: Reflections on Aristotle's Modal Ontology 14: Frank A. Lewis: How Aristotle Understands Change: A Reading of Physics 3.1-3 15: Ursula Coope: Aristotle: Processes and Continuants 16: Vassilis Karasmanis: Why is Space Discontinuous? De Lineis Insecabilibus 968b5-22

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David Bronstein is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2023-2026). He previously held positions at the University of New South Wales, Georgetown University, Boston University, and the University of Oxford. He is the author of Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: the Posterior Analytics (OUP, 2016) and several articles on Plato and Aristotle. Thomas Kjeller Johansen studied Philosophy and Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he also attained his PhD. He subsequently taught in the departments of Classics and Philosophy at Bristol, Edinburgh, and Oxford, before moving to the University of Oslo in 2016. Michail Peramatzis took both a BA in Classics and Philosophy and an MSt in Philosophy at the University of Athens. After two years in the Hellenic Navy, he completed his DPhil at Christ Church, Oxford. Before taking up his current position he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church and a Lectureship in Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast.

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