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Unity, identity, and explanation in Aristotle's metaphysics / edited by T. Scaltsas, D. Charles, and M.L. Gill - Oxford, Clarendon Press, ©1994 - x, 381 pages ; 24 cm

Revised papers from a conference on Aristotle's metaphysics held a t Oriel College, Oxford, in July 1989

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-361) and indexes

Introduction / Theodore Scaltsas, David Charles and Mary Louise Gill -- 1. A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form / Kit Fine -- 2. Aristotle on Identity / William Charlton -- 3. Individuals and Individuation in Aristotle / Mary Louise Gill -- 4. Matter and Form: Unity, Persistence, and Identity / David Charles -- 5. Substantial Holism / Theodore Scaltsas -- 6. Parts, Compounds, and Substantial Unity / Sally Haslanger -- 7. Aristotle's Notion of Potentiality in Metaphysics [theta] / Michael Frede -- 8. The Activity of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics / Aryeh Kosman -- 9. The Priority of Actuality in Aristotle / Charlotte Witt -- 10. Essences, Powers, and Generic Propositions / Julius Moravcsik -- 11. Aristotle on the Relation between a Thing and its Matter / Frank A. Lewis -- 12. The Essence of a Human Being and the Individual Soul in Metaphysics Z and H / Michael Woods -- 13. The Definition of Generated Composites in Aristotle's Metaphysics / Michael Ferejohn -- 14. Aristotle's Conception of Metaphysics as a Science / Robert Bolton

ISBN: 0198240678 9780198240679

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9465470 bnb

Subjects--Personal Names:
Aristotle--Congresses
Aristotle. Metaphysics --Congresses

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Substance (Philosophy)--Congresses
Metaphysics--Congresses
Ontology--Congresses
Metaphysics

Subjects--Index Terms: Metaphysics

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Kongress--Oxford--1989
Conference proceedings.

LC Class. No.: B491.M4 / U55 1994

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH YNDC 338.47 S282U