Die vorliegende Arbeit besteht aus drei Studien. In der ersten Studie unternimmt der Autor den Versuch einer hypothetischen Auslegung, wie Aristoteles die zweiten Substanzen und die Universalien interpretiert haben könnte. Im Fokus wird dabei von Seiten des Autors der Frage nach…
Substance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound-and perplexing-treatise: Books VII-IX of the Metaphysics. These central books, which focus on the nature of substance, have gained a deserved reputation for their difficulty, inconclusiveness, and i…
Substance and Essence in Aristotle is a close study of Aristotle's most profound-and perplexing-treatise: Books VII-IX of the Metaphysics. These central books, which focus on the nature of substance, have gained a deserved reputation for their difficulty, inconclusiveness, and i…
Serious essentialism -- Grounding and essence -- Fundamental mereology and the priority of substance -- Against part-priority -- Substantial priority : cats, statues, and lumps -- Substantial priority : vagueness, the many, and overdetermination -- Getting personal : substantial…
Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties, laws, causation, and modality in the neo-Aristotelian metaphysics literature, t…
Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects. While there have been numerous treatments of properties, laws, causation, and modality in the neo-Aristotelian metaphysics literature, t…