Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

Abstract

'Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics' is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology. Introduction: An Aristotelian revival? / Edward Feser -- The phainomenological method in Aristotle's metaphysics / Christopher Shields -- The Aporetic method and the defense of immodest metaphysics / Stephen Boulter -- Metaphysics as the first philosophy / Tuomas E. Tahko -- Two doctrines of categories in Aristotle: Topics, categories, and metaphysics / Robert Bolton -- Grounding, analogy, and Aristotle's Critique of Plato's idea of the good / Allan Silverman -- Essence, modality, and the master craftsman / Stephen Williams and David Charles -- Being, unity, and identity in the Fregean and Aristotelian traditions / Gyula Klima -- Substance, independence, and unity / Kathrin Koslicki -- Neo-Aristotelian metaphysics: A brief exposition and defense / E.J. Lowe -- Synthetic life and the bruteness of immanent causation / David S. Oderberg -- Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein / Edward Feser -- Incomposite being / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Aristotle's divine cause / Fred D. Miller, Jr.