Aristotle S Ontology Of Artefacts

"Shows historians of philosophy that Aristotle provides an elaborate account of artefacts from which we can extrapolate a new solution to the problem of artefacts' substantiality. The reconstruction of such an account also places Aristotle into communication with contemporary metaphysical debates on ordinary objects"--

A thorough reconstruction of Aristotle's account of artefacts that is sensitive to modern debates.

Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.

Papers presented to the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy since its beginnings in the 1950's.

Riccardo Chiaradonna, Filippo Forcignanò e Franco Trabattoni, Presentazione • Francesco Fronterotta, “Do the Gods Play Dice?”. Sensible Sequentialism and Fuzzy Logic in Plato’s Timaeus • Riccardo Chiaradonna, Massimo Marraffa, Ontology and the Self: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives • Gabriele Galluzzo, Are Matter and Form Parts? Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian Hylomorphism • Riin Sirkel, Essence and Cause: Making Something Be What It Is • Marilù Papandreou, Aristotle’s Hylomorphism and The Contemporary Metaphysics of Artefacts • Gabriele De Anna, Substance, Form, and Modality • Maddalena Bonelli, Dipendenza e indipendenza ontologica: la modernità della posizione peripatetica • Enrico Postiglione, Aristotle on the Distribution of Consciousness • Diego Zucca, Neo-Aristotelian Biofunctionalism • Matteo Pietropaoli, L’οὐσία come presenza costante e l’esser vero come autentico essere. Heidegger interprete di Aristotele, Metafisica Θ 10

Neoplatonists from Plotinus onward incorporate Aristotle’s logic and ontology into their philosophies: this process is of both intrinsic and historical interest and paves the way for subsequent philosophical debates in the Middle Ages and beyond. The ten essays collected in this book focus on the readings of Aristotle by Plotinus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus in the 3rd and 4th centuries. Their discussions cover key issues in the history of logic and metaphysics such as substance, hylomorphism, causation, existence, and predication. Among the topics tackled in this volume are Plotinus’ criticism of Aristotle’s physical essentialism, which is a major chapter in the history of metaphysics, and the interpretation of Porphyry’s Isagoge, one of the most influential and enigmatic works in the history of philosophy. Further essays focus on the readings of Aristotle’s categories developed by Porphyry and Iamblichus, which raise interesting questions at the intersection of logic and ontology, and on the integration of Aristotle’s ontology into Neoplatonist accounts of being and existence.