Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction

Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader's understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the organizing theme, and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view, but Scotist and Suarezian positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.

Author: Edward Feser
Publisher: Verlag Editiones Scholasticae
Published: 07/18/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9783868385441
ISBN10: 3868385444
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
- Philosophy | Movements | Realism

About the Author
Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA.