Order and multiplicity: homonymy in the philosophy of Aristotle
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199253074
- ISBN10 0199253072
- Type BOOK
- Pages 290
- Collection Oxford Aristotle Studies
- Published 2002
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Ancient PhilosophyOrder and multiplicity: homonymy in the philosophy of Aristotle
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
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. 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.