Unity, Identity and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199244413 ISBN 13: 9780199244416

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity and identity of substances--a topic that remains at the center of metaphysical inquiry--this volume presents fourteen essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components.

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About the Author

Theodore Scaltsas is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics (Cornell University Press, 1994), The Golden Age of Virtue: Aristotle's Ethics (Alexandria Press, 1993), and the editor of Aristotelian Realism (Dedalos Press, 1993). David Charles is Tutor and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Aristotle's Philosophy of Action (Cornell University Press, 1984), the co-editor of Reduction, Explanation, and Realism (1992) and Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum (2000), and the author of Aristotle on Meaning and Essence (2000), all published by Oxford University Press. Mary Louise Gill is Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of iAristotle on Substance: The/i Paradox of Unity (1991), and co-editor of Self-Motivation: From Aristotle/i to Newton (1994), both published by Princeton University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199244413
• ISBN 13: 9780199244416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Scaltsas T., Charles D., Gill M. L.