Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 615 g
Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 615 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-823715-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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- 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
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- Afterword: Homonymy's Promise Reconsidered
- Index Locorum
- General Index
- Bibliography
