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Order in Multiplicity : Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle

by: Shields, C.

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Category: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
Code: 301
ISBN-13: 9780199253074 / 978-0-19-925307-4
ISBN-10: 0199253072 / 0-19-925307-2
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2002
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 290
Book Condition: New
Comments: First Published 1999

Order in Multiplicity
Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Christopher Shields
Clarendon Press

Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
First book by a respected philosopher
Ground-breaking study of a central aspect of Aristotle's thought
Examines Aristotle on language, metaphysics, ethics, and biology
Illuminates modern as well as ancient philosophical method
No knowledge of Greek required in the reader

Description
Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homonymy of many central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being common to a single general concept. His preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to almost every subject that he considers, and it clearly structures the philosophical methodology that he employs both when criticizing others and when advancing his own positive theories. Where there is homonymy there is multiplicity: Aristotle aims to find the order within this multiplicity, and believes that doing so is crucial to scientific inquiry and philosophical progress.
Christopher Shields investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept. Then, in a series of case-studies, Shields examines in detail some of Aristotle's principal applications of homonymy—to the body, sameness and oneness, life, goodness, and being. Shields's aim is not only to give a fuller understanding of Aristotle's methodology and to illuminate his specific doctrines in a variety of areas, but to show that this methodology remains fruitful today.

Table of Contents
Part I: Homonymy as Such
1:The Varieties of Homonymy
2:The Promises and Problems of Homonymy
3:Signification
4:Core-Dependent Homonymy
Part II: Homonymy at Work
5:The Body
6:Oneness, Sameness, and Referential Opacity
7:The Meaning of Life
8:Goodness
9: Being:
Afterword: Homonymy's Promise Reconsidered
Index Locorum
General Index
Bibliography

 
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Order in Multiplicity : Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle

by: Shields, C.

  • ISBN-13: 9780199253074 / 978-0-19-925307-4
  • ISBN-03: 0199253072 / 0-19-925307-2
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002

Price: 64,00 EURO

1 copy in stock