Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics [Paperback]

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Su?rezs Metaphysical Disputationspublished in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.

 

Why Metaphysics?  A Rather Ambitious Introduction Daniel D. Novotn? and Luk?a Nov?k Part 1:What is Metaphysics?  1. What Is Metaphysics? Realist, Conceptualist, and Neutralist Answers Jorge GraciaPart 2: Being and its Properties  2. Existence: Two Dogmas of Analysis William F. Vallicella  3. Being and One Jonathan Lowe  4. Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good Eduard Feser  5. Being and Cognition Gyula Klima Part 3: Causes and Principles of Being  6. Essentiality as Foundationality Michael Gorman  7. Aristotle's Hylomorphism Michael J. Loux  8. Is Form Structure? David S. Oderberg  9. Aristotelian Agent-Causation Edmund RunggaldierPart 4: Varieties of Being10. Materiality and Immateriality Uwe Meixner  11. Quantity and Number James Franklin  Part 5: Divine Being  12. God's Existence RobertlSË