Aristotelian Metaphysics: Essence and Ground

This special issue of Studia Philosophica Estonica centers around Aristotelian metaphysics, construed broadly to cover both scholarly research on Aristotle’s metaphysics as well as work by contemporary metaphysicians on Aristotelian themes. Aristotelian metaphysics is a growing tradition. The contribution this special issue makes to the ongoing discussion is twofold. First, it promotes a deeper interaction between scholars of Aristotle and contemporary metaphysicians. Second, the special issue is unified in its focus on two themes in Aristotelian metaphysics, essence and grounding. The papers address questions concerning fundamentality and dependence, ontological independence or priority, the causal priority of forms, the unity of grounding, the reduction of grounding to essence, the unity of essence, the roles of essence, and explanation and definition.

Papers on this issue:

* Justin Zylstra: Dependence and Fundamentality
* Margaret Anne Cameron: Is Ground Said-in-Many-Ways?
* Pablo Carnino: On the Reduction of Grounding to Essence
* Ryan Christensen: Essence, Essence, and Essence
* Lucas Angioni: Aristotle on Necessary Principles and on Explaining X through X’s essence
* Kathrin Koslicki: The Causal Priority of Form in Aristotle
* Michail Peramatzis: Sameness, Definition, and Essence
* Christine J. Thomas: Plato on Metaphysical Explanation: Does ‘Participating’ Mean Nothing?
* Travis Dumsday: E.J. Lowe on the Unity Problem

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