The oxymoronic phrase ‘intelligible matter’ occurs three times in Aristotle. In two passages it has the same meaning; in the third the meaning seems radically different. This gives the impression that the Aristotelian language of metaphysics is distressingly slack. This paper argues, against the nearly unanimous voice of two millennia of commentaries, that ‘intelligible matter’ has the same meaning in all three loci. In doing so it develops a capital distinction that tightens up the apparatus of Aristotelian metaphysics
This paper explores the implications of Aristotle\u27s puzzling suggestions that the possibility of ...
ABSTRACT Analogy (ἀναλογία) according to Aristotle, is a way given items can be regarded as iden...
In this dissertation, I defend an interpretation of Aristotle\u27s principle as the ground for compl...
In about 350 BC Aristotle committed to writing in one of his major works (Metaphysics) what may well...
Aristotle has a metaphysics of individual substances, substrata persisting through time that are nei...
In ordinary language, what is said \u27being\u27 is so-called in several different ways. In his atte...
Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics' defends a number of theses about oneness ['to hen']. For interpreting the ...
Our everyday knowledge and the knowledge of the sciences are based on presuppositions of different f...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
The Metaphysics is not merely a little-structured collection of reflections bearing on fundamental p...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edizioni ETS via the lin...
In Metaphysics A, Aristotle offers some objections to Plato’s theory of Forms to the effect that Pla...
This paper defends Plotinus’ reading of Sophist 248e-249d as an expression of the togetherness or un...
I discuss some of Aristotle’s scattered remarks from which one can construct his conception of matte...
Strawson famously classified Aristotle as a descriptive metaphysician, alongside himself, and in con...
This paper explores the implications of Aristotle\u27s puzzling suggestions that the possibility of ...
ABSTRACT Analogy (ἀναλογία) according to Aristotle, is a way given items can be regarded as iden...
In this dissertation, I defend an interpretation of Aristotle\u27s principle as the ground for compl...
In about 350 BC Aristotle committed to writing in one of his major works (Metaphysics) what may well...
Aristotle has a metaphysics of individual substances, substrata persisting through time that are nei...
In ordinary language, what is said \u27being\u27 is so-called in several different ways. In his atte...
Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics' defends a number of theses about oneness ['to hen']. For interpreting the ...
Our everyday knowledge and the knowledge of the sciences are based on presuppositions of different f...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP via the DOI in this ...
The Metaphysics is not merely a little-structured collection of reflections bearing on fundamental p...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Edizioni ETS via the lin...
In Metaphysics A, Aristotle offers some objections to Plato’s theory of Forms to the effect that Pla...
This paper defends Plotinus’ reading of Sophist 248e-249d as an expression of the togetherness or un...
I discuss some of Aristotle’s scattered remarks from which one can construct his conception of matte...
Strawson famously classified Aristotle as a descriptive metaphysician, alongside himself, and in con...
This paper explores the implications of Aristotle\u27s puzzling suggestions that the possibility of ...
ABSTRACT Analogy (ἀναλογία) according to Aristotle, is a way given items can be regarded as iden...
In this dissertation, I defend an interpretation of Aristotle\u27s principle as the ground for compl...