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Book SynopsisThis book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J. E. Gracia’s views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracia’s responses to his critics makes this book a useful companion to Gracia’s Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge.
Trade Review“A valuable contribution to current metaphysics. The studies of Gracia’s important book Metaphysics and its Task are insightful, and his replies to them are meticulous. One of the many merits of the book is the respect evident throughout for the essential place of Aristotle and Aquinas in serious metaphysical inquiry.” – Panayot Butchvarov
Table of ContentsForeword by Ralph M. McInerny Editor’s Introduction Acknowledgments One: Thomas D. SULLIVAN and Russell PANNIER: The Bounds of Metaphysics Two: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being, the Transcendentals, the Divine, and Metaphysics: Response to Sullivan and Pannier Three: Josef SEIFERT: What is Metaphysics and What are its Tasks?: An Attempt to Answer this Question with Critical Reflections on Gracia’s Book Four: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being and the Tasks of Metaphysics: Response to Seifert Five: Jonathan J. SANFORD: An Aristotelian Critique of Gracia’s Metaphysics Six: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Metaphysics and Meta-Metaphysics: Response to Sanford Seven: Robert A. DELFINO: Neo-Thomism and Gracia’s Metaphysics Eight: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Thomas, Thomists, and the Nature of Metaphysics: Response to Delfino Nine: Peter A. REDPATH: Gracia and His Task Ten: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: The Nature of Philosophy: Response to Redpath Eleven: John D. KRONEN: Spirits and “Things”: Ritschl’s Critique of Metaphysics in Light of Gracia’s Definition of Metaphysics Twelve: Daniel D. NOVOTNY: Is Hume A Metaphysician?: Aristotle vs. Gracia. Thirteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Making Sense of the History of Metaphysics: Response to Kronen and Novotny Fourteen: Russell PANNIER and Thomas D. SULLIVAN: Gracia on the Ontological Status of Categories Fifteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Categorial Neutralism: Response To Pannier, Sullivan, Seifert, and Ingala Afterword by Jorge J. E. GRACIA About the Contributors Index
