Gamma Paradoxes (eBook)

An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle's Metaphysics

Jeremy Kirby (Autor)

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2018
188 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4037-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotles Metaphysics and introduces the debates (or paradoxes as he refers to them) such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the possibility of true contradictions, the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the limits of thought, and logic.

Autor

Jeremy Kirby is associate professor of philosophy at Albion College.

Inhalt

Foreword: The Gamma ParadoxesChapter One: The Science of BeingChapter Two: ContradictionsChapter Three: Truth, Being, and PerspectiveAppendix A: Aristotle and the Liar ParadoxAfterword: The Gamma ParadoxesBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 9 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 7 Tables; - 1 Text Boxes.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Analytic philosophy • Aristotle • Being • Christopher Shields • Contradiction • Demonstrative • Dialectic • ethics • Exegesis • Kant • Liar paradox • Logic • Physics • Plato • principle of excluded middle • principle of non-contradiction • science of being • simmias • Socrates • Truth
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4037-6 / 1498540376
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4037-7 / 9781498540377