Metaphysics (eBook)

Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic

Lukáš Novák, Daniel D. Novotný, Prokop Sousedík, David Svoboda (Herausgeber)

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2012
283 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-032244-6 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Inhalt

CONTENTS 7
PREFACE 9
SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND 13
What is an Ontological Category? 15
Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics 29
SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE 45
What Is Constituent Ontology? 47
Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account 63
Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now 77
SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT
Essence and Ontology 97
An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars 117
The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident? 127
SECTION IV: EXISTENCE 145
Existential Inertia 147
Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms 173
SECTION V: MODALITIES 187
Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on “Powers” 189
Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility 199
The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz’ Mathematical Framing of the Compossible 213
SECTION VI: PREDICATION 231
The Interpretation(s) of Predication 233
Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication 251
Authors 261
General Index 267
Index of Persons 285

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Scholasticism
• Reihe/Serie: Contemporary Scholasticism
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: Zahlr Abb.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Metaphysik • Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-032244-7 / 3110322447
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032244-6 / 9783110322446