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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.
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
