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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScaltsas has written an extended and powerful treatment of some of the deepest and most puzzling features of Aristotelian metaphysics, producing an interpretation that covers a wide range not only of Aristotelian material but also of Platonic material. He offers detailed critiques of the views of various modern commentators as well as of philosophers. Scaltsas has made an important and original contribution to our interpretation of Metaphysics.
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Table of ContentsThe ThemeI. Matter
1. Physical Continuity in Change
2. Radical Transformation
3. Against Hot, Cold, Wet, and Dry Stuff
4. Quantity of Matter: Soma
5. The Essence of MatterII. Universals
1. The Rejection of the Platonic Forms
2. Existential Arguments for Aristotelian Forms
3. The Universality of the Material SubstratumIII. The Birth of the Subject
1. Plato's Discovery of the Subject
2. The "Nature-Feature" Problem
3. Does Participation Presuppose a Partaker?IV: The Substantial Form
1. A Substance and Its Parts: Plato's Legacy
2. The Aggregate Argument
3. Is the Substantial Form a Relation?
4. The Threshold Argument
5. The Trope-Overlap Argument
6. Structural Universals and Substantial Forms
7. The Aristotelian Solution to Davis Lewis's Paradox
8. Universality Requirements on the Substantial FormV. The Unity of Substance
1. Abstraction and Separateness
2. Types of Abstract Entity
3. The Metaphysics of Abstraction: The Unity of Matter and Form in a Substance
4. An Existential Dilemma about Matter and FormVI. Particulars
1. Nonmaterial Substances
2. Particularity and Subjecthood
3. Essence as Subject: The "Second Man" Argument
4. Particularity of Nonmaterial Substances
5. Particularity of Material Substances: How Similar Can Different Substances Be?
6. Substantial Holism
7. Kit Fine's Paradox on the Identity of Aristotelian SubstancesVII. The Zeta Contradictions
1. The Contradictions
2. The Consistent Zeta Picture
3. Self-Caused Unities
4. Potentiality Entails Homonymy
5. Is the Substantial Form of a Substance Numerically One?Conclusion: Revisiting the Zeta ContradictionsAppendix 1: Live Matter
Appendix 2: Against Bare Substrata
Appendix 3: Against Individual Forms
Appendix 4: The Argument of Metaphysics M, 10Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
