Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics Routledge Studies in Metaphysics Series

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.

Why Metaphysics? A Rather Ambitious Introduction Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák Part 1:What is Metaphysics? 1. What Is Metaphysics? Realist, Conceptualist, and Neutralist Answers Jorge GraciaPart 2: Being and its Properties 2. Existence: Two Dogmas of Analysis William F. Vallicella 3. Being and One Jonathan Lowe 4. Being, the Good, and the Guise of the Good Eduard Feser 5. Being and Cognition Gyula KlimaPart 3: Causes and Principles of Being 6. Essentiality as Foundationality Michael Gorman 7. Aristotle's Hylomorphism Michael J. Loux 8. Is Form Structure? David S. Oderberg 9. Aristotelian Agent-Causation Edmund RunggaldierPart 4: Varieties of Being 10. Materiality and Immateriality Uwe Meixner 11. Quantity and Number James FranklinPart 5: Divine Being 12. God's Existence Robert Koons 13. Divine Self-Exiistence William Lane CraigPart 6: Beyond Being 14. Non-Existence and Non-Existents Nicholas Rescher

Daniel D. Novotný is post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic He has co-edited Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012) and authored Ens Rationis from Suárez to Caramuel (2013).

Lukáš Novák is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, and Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.He has co-edited Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (2012), and is editor of the journal Studia Neoaristotelica.