Metaphysics:
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1. Verfasser: Svoboda, David (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin De Gruyter 2012
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary scholasticism
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Beschreibung:PREFACE; SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND; What is an Ontological Category?; Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics; SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE; What Is Constituent Ontology?; Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account; Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now; SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT; Essence and Ontology; An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars; The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident?; SECTION IV: EXISTENCE; Existential Inertia
Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of ParadigmsSECTION V: MODALITIES; Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on "Powers"; Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility; The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz' Mathematical Framing of the Compossible; SECTION VI: PREDICATION; The Interpretation(s) of Predication; Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication; Authors; General Index; Index of Persons
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 propos
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