ABSTRACT

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 Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations published 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.

 

chapter |16 pages

Why Metaphysics?

A Rather Ambitious Introduction

part I|25 pages

What Is Metaphysics?

chapter I|23 pages

What Is Metaphysics?

Realist, Conceptualist, and Neutralist Answers

part II|74 pages

Being and Its Properties

chapter II|31 pages

Existence

Two Dogmas of Analysis

chapter II|8 pages

Being and One

chapter II|13 pages

Being and Cognition

part III|82 pages

Causes and Principles of Being

chapter III|19 pages

Essentiality as Foundationality

chapter III|26 pages

Aristotle's Hylomorphism

chapter III|17 pages

Is Form Structure?

chapter III|18 pages

Aristotelian Agent-Causation

part IV|46 pages

Varieties of Being

chapter IV|20 pages

Materiality and Immateriality

chapter IV|24 pages

Quantity and Number

part V|51 pages

Divine Being

chapter V|22 pages

God's Existence

chapter V|27 pages

Divine Self-Existence

part VI|15 pages

Beyond Being

chapter VI|13 pages

Non-Existence and Non-Existents