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541Aristotle's distinction between change and activityAxiomathes 14 3-22. 2004.Aristotle's conception of being is dynamic. He believes that a thing is most itself when engaged in its proper activities, governed by its nature. This paper explores this idea by focusing on Metaphysics , a text that continues the investigation of substantial being initiated inMetaphysics Z. Q.1 claims that there are two potentiality-actuality distinctions, one concerned with potentiality in the strict sense, which is involved in change, the other concerned with potentiality in another sense, w…Read more
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169Aristotle's Metaphysics ReconsideredJournal of the History of Philosophy 43 (3): 223-241. 2005.Aristotle's metaphysics has stimulated intense renewed debate in the past twenty years. Much of the discussion has focused on Metaphysics Z, Aristotle's fascinating and difficult investigation of substance , and to a lesser extent on H and Θ. The place of the central books within the larger project of First Philosophy in the Metaphysics has engaged scholars since antiquity, and that relationship has also been reexamined. In addition, scholars have been exploring the Metaphysics from various broa…Read more
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145Unity, identity, and explanation in Aristotle's metaphysics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1994.This volume presents fourteen essays by leading figures in the fields of ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, discussing Aristotle's theory of the unity and identity of substances, a topic that remains at the center of metaphysical enquiry. The contributors examine the nature of essences, how they differ from other components of substance, and how they are related to these other components. The central questions discussed are: What does Aristotle mean by "potentiality" and "actuality…Read more
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124Aristotle’s Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics ZetaMind 112 (447): 583-586. 2003.
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123Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of UnityPrinceton University Press. 1989.This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of ...
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113Method and metaphysics in Plato's sophist and statesmanStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.The Sophist and Statesman are late Platonic dialogues, whose relative dates are established by their stylistic similarity to the Laws, a work that was apparently still “on the wax” at the time of Plato's death (Diogenes Laertius III.37). These dialogues are important in exhibiting Plato'sviews on method and metaphysics after he criticized his own most famous contribution to the history of philosophy, the theory of separate, immaterial forms, in the Parmenides. The Statesman also offers a transit…Read more
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92ParmenidesHackett Pub. Co.. 1996."Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticulously through the arguments, avoids perverseness, and still manages to make sense of the dialogue as a whole; there is a fine selective bibliography; and those parts of the translation I have looked at in detail suggest that it too is very good indeed." --Christopher Rowe, _Phronesis_.
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90The Limits of Teleology in Aristotle’s Meteorology IV.12Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 4 (2): 335-50. 2014.Meteorology IV.12, the final chapter of Aristotle’s “chemical” treatise, is a major text for the traditional view that Aristotle believed in universal teleology, the idea that everything in the cosmos—including the elements, earth, water, air, and fire—is what it is because of the goal or good it serves. But in the context of the rest of Meteorology IV, a different picture emerges. Meteorology IV.1–11 analyze the dispositional properties of material compounds (malleability, elasticity, etc.), ex…Read more
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62How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta, by Frank A. Lewis: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xvi + 324, £50Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 395-397. 2015.
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58Aristotle'sJournal of the History of Philosophy 43 (3): 223-241. 2005.: Aristotle's metaphysics has stimulated intense renewed debate in the past twenty years. Much of the discussion has focused on Metaphysics Z, Aristotle's fascinating and difficult investigation of substance (ousia), and to a lesser extent on H and Θ. The place of the central books within the larger project of First Philosophy in the Metaphysics has engaged scholars since antiquity, and that relationship has also been reexamined. In addition, scholars have been exploring the Metaphysics from var…Read more
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52Design of the Exercise in Plato’s ParmenidesDialogue 53 (3): 495-520. 2014.Dans la première partie duParménide, Socrate présente une théorie des Formes qui explique la comprésence d’opposés dans les choses ordinaires et soutient que les Formes ne peuvent avoir des caractéristiques opposées. Dans la deuxième partie, Parménide s’appuie sur les propos de Socrate; il en dérive des conséquences inacceptables — que la Forme de l’Un n’existe pas, et ainsi, que rien n’existe. Cette conclusion est indéniablement fausse. Pour éviter ceci, Socrate doit abandonner la thèse exposée…Read more
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47Aristotle's Two Systems (review)Review of Metaphysics 46 (3): 616-617. 1993.A central exegetical problem in Aristotelian studies is deciding how best to deal with apparent inconsistencies in his writings. Early this century, Werner Jaeger, challenging unitarian approaches of the previous century, argued that conflicting views could be reconciled by relegating them to different stages of Aristotle's philosophical career. Although scholars have questioned some of Jaeger's specific proposals, genetic explanations of inconsistencies are still widely adopted.
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45Michael J. Loux, "Primary Ousia: An Essay on Aristotle's "Metaphysics" Z and H" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (2): 278. 1993.
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44Aristoteles, "Metaphysik Z." Erster Band: Einleitung, Text und Übersetzung. Zweiter band: KommentarJournal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 602-605. 1990.
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44PLATO, SOPHIST_- P. Crivelli Plato's Account of Falsehood. A Study of the _Sophist. Pp. xii + 309. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Cased, £57, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-521-19913-1 (review)The Classical Review 65 (1): 53-55. 2015.
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43Chapter 2. Aristotle on Self-MotionIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. pp. 15-34. 2017.
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39Critique of Aryeh Kosman, The Activity of Being: An Essay on Aristotle's OntologyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 854-859. 2018.
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