Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics

by Edward Feser (Editor)

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. An Aristotelian Revival?; Edward Feser 2. The Phainomenological Method in Aristotle's Metaphysics ; Christopher Shields 3. The Aporetic Method and the Defence of Immodest Metaphysics; Stephen Boulter 4. Metaphysics as the First Philosophy; Tuomas E. Tahko 5. Two Doctrines of Categories in Topics, Categories , and Metaphysics ; Robert Bolton 6. Grounding, Analogy and Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Idea of the Good; Allan Silverman 7. Essence, Modality and the Master Craftsman; Stephen Williams and David Charles 8. Being, Unity, and Identity in the Fregean and Aristotelian Traditions; Gyula Klima 9. Substance, Independence and Unity; Kathrin Koslicki 10. Neo-Aristotelian A Brief Exposition and Defence; E. J. Lowe 11. Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation; David S. Oderberg 12. Motion in Aristotle, Newton, and Einstein; Edward Feser 13. Incomposite Being; Lloyd P. Gerson 14. Aristotle's Divine Cause; Fred D. Miller, Jr. Index

Genres: Philosophy

316 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.

Called by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy,” Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and Aquinas, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics. He is also the author of many academic articles. His primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Feser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective. In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American, The American Conservative, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Reason, and TCS Daily.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and six children.

Reviews

[Pinkyivan]

I was expecting something more in vain of other Feser's work, an introductory or at least a text written for a more general audience, but this turned out to be a collection of essays by multiple authors dealing with very specific problems in contemporary Aristotelian thought.
Turned out a bit too complex for me, is recommended to people extremely well versed in the subject, but not to people who don't deal with philosophy on a daily basis.

[Pinky 2.0 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was expecting something more in vain of other Feser's work, an introductory or at least a text written for a more general audience, but this turned out to be a collection of essays by multiple authors dealing with very specific problems in contemporary Aristotelian thought. Turned out a bit too complex for me, is recommended to people extremely well versed in the subject, but not to people who don't deal with philosophy on a daily basis.