Author(s): Michael V. Wedin
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 496
Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
I. The Plan of the Categories......Page 26
1. Aristotle's Three Onymies......Page 27
2. Some Suggestions on the Role of the Onymies......Page 31
3. The Onymies as Grouping Principles......Page 36
4. Two Ways to Get the List of Categories......Page 42
5. A Pair of Problems......Page 44
1. The Standard Version......Page 53
2. Owen's New Orthodoxy......Page 54
3. The New Improved Orthodoxy......Page 58
4. The Revised Standard Version......Page 66
5. Independent Evidence in the Categories......Page 69
6. The Testimony of Metaphysics Z.1......Page 74
7. The New Revised Standard Version......Page 80
1. The Meta-Ontology of the Categories as a Theory of Per Se Being......Page 82
2. Two-Step Dependence......Page 88
3. Asymmetry......Page 96
4. Asymmetry and the Nonsubstantial......Page 97
5. The Status of Nonsubstantial Universals......Page 101
6. The Status of Secondary Substances......Page 107
7. Inflation: Species as General Objects......Page 112
8. Elimination: Species as Linguistic Items......Page 117
9. Equivocation: Waffling on Existence......Page 123
10. A Strategy for Demotion: Existence Conditions......Page 126
11. Idealization in the Categories: A Transitional Remark......Page 136
1. An Argument for Outright Incompatibility......Page 139
2. The Alleged Failure of the Categories Account of a Subject......Page 144
3. On Two Philosophical Arguments for the Subjecthood of Form......Page 153
4. An 'Aristotelian' Argument for the Subjecthood of Form......Page 159
5. How Not to Smuggle Matter into the Categories......Page 167
V. The Structure and Substance of Substance......Page 172
1. The Categories Framework in Metaphysics Z.1......Page 173
2. Subjects and Substance in Z.3......Page 181
3. The Priority Argument......Page 187
4. The Reductio Argument......Page 191
5. The Auxiliary Argument......Page 204
1. A Transitional Problem......Page 212
2. Some 'Logical' Remarks about Essence......Page 215
3. The New Primacy Passage......Page 220
4. The Elimination Argument......Page 222
5. The Notion of a [omitted]......Page 225
6. The New Primacy Argument......Page 234
7. Essence as the Form of a Genus [omitted]......Page 245
8. The [omitted] and Formal Differentiae......Page 252
9.Per Se[sub(2)] Compounds and Compound Properties......Page 262
1. Setting the Problem......Page 273
2. Formulating the Zeta 6 Thesis......Page 277
3. The Range of the Thesis......Page 280
4. Having versus Being an Essence......Page 285
5. The Problem of Regress......Page 290
6. Immediacy and Explanation......Page 297
7. A Worry about the Dilution of Substance......Page 300
VIII. The Purification of Form......Page 304
1. The Structure of Z.10 and 11......Page 306
2. The Correspondence Thesis......Page 311
3. Varieties of Parts and Wholes......Page 315
4. The Sophisticated Position......Page 319
5. Definability and Particular Compounds......Page 329
6. From Priority to Purity......Page 332
7. Z.11 on the Purification of Form......Page 334
8. Aristotle's Thought Experiment......Page 336
9. Socrates the Younger on the Soul of Man......Page 342
10. In Defense of PURITY......Page 350
11. A Transitional Remark......Page 356
IX. Generality and Compositionality: Z.13's Worries about Form......Page 358
1. Worries about Fit: Continuity versus Autonomy......Page 359
2. Links to Z.10 and 11......Page 369
3. The Role of Z.13 (–16)......Page 375
4. The Arguments of Z.13 and their Target(s)......Page 377
5. The Master Argument......Page 383
6. The No-Part Argument......Page 393
7. Complexity Lost: Z.13's End Dilemma......Page 400
8. Complexity Regained: Z.16 on Dual Complexity......Page 405
1. Z.17's Fresh Start......Page 420
2. The Organization of Z.17......Page 423
3. How to Ask 'Why?'......Page 424
4. Weak Proscription and the Causal Role of Form......Page 433
5. Explanation and the Purity of Form......Page 442
6. Logical Heterogeneity and the Immediacy of the Form–Matter Connection......Page 451
7. Heaps, Wholes, and the Transformation of Elements......Page 456
8. A Philosophical Argument for PURITY......Page 464
9. Last Rights on Primacy......Page 467
Bibliography......Page 470
Index Locorum......Page 480
B......Page 486
C......Page 487
E......Page 488
F......Page 489
G......Page 490
K......Page 491
M......Page 492
P......Page 493
R......Page 494
S......Page 495
U......Page 496
Z......Page 497
