Download e-book for kindle: Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics by Dr Tuomas E. Tahko

By Dr Tuomas E. Tahko

Aristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is presently present process whatever of a renaissance. This quantity brings jointly fourteen new essays from major philosophers who're sympathetic to this belief of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the concept that metaphysics is the 1st philosophy. the first enter from Aristotle is methodological, yet many issues well-known from his metaphysics can be mentioned, together with ontological different types, the function and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence, substance, average forms, powers, power, and the advance of existence. the amount mounts a robust problem to the kind of ontological deflationism which has lately received a powerful foothold in analytic metaphysics. it will likely be an invaluable source for students and complicated scholars who're drawn to the principles and improvement of philosophy.

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