Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations
Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations
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Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), one of the most important early modern scholastic philosophers, had considerable influence not only on canonical early modern philosophers such as Descartes and Leibniz, but even more so on subsequent scholastic philosophers and theologians. His Metaphysical Disputations of 1597 was intended to provide the reader with a complete grounding in metaphysics and is one of the most detailed, comprehensive elaborations of an Aristotelian metaphysics ever published. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on a wide range of topics in the Metaphysical Disputations, including Suárez's metaphysics of modality, his nominalism, and his accounts of the categories, prime matter, falsity, time, and causation. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of early modern scholasticism, and also for those researching later thinkers whose work was influenced by Suárez.
- A wide-ranging collection of new essays on Suárez's most important and influential work
- Acquaints the reader with some of the most recent scholarship on Suárez and draws attention to some of the many neglected parts of the Metaphysical Disputations
- Stimulates new directions for future research into Suárez's metaphysical views
Product details
- Published: October 2025
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781009336727
- Length: 308 pages
- Dimensions: 235 × 161 × 22 mm
- Weight: 0.59kg
- Availability: Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction Shane Duarte and Sydney Penner
- Part I. The Character of Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations:
- 1. The systematic framework of the disputationes metaphysicae and its dialectical character Daniel Novotný
- Part II. Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions:
- 2. Suárez's metaphysics of modality Stephan Schmid
- 3. The analogy of the true: Suárez's explanation of the relation between ontic truth and epistemic truth in the scholastic context Rolf Darge
- 4. Suárez, extrinsic denomination, and the explicatio entis Shane Duarte
- 5. Suárez on the origin of falsity Sydney Penner
- 6. Something about nothing: Suárez's nominalism Christopher Shields
- 7. Suárez on distinctions Marleen Rozemond
- Part III. Causation:
- 8. Motio metaphorica: Suárez on final causality Giuseppe Capriati
- 9. Suárez on the influx or causality of the final cause Kara Richardson
- 10. Is efficient causation intensional? Suárez on per se and per accidens efficient causation Jacob A. Tuttle
- Part IV. Corporeal Substance:
- 11. Suárez's partial pluralism about substantial form Brian Embry
- 12. Suárez on prime matter, extension, and quantity Tad Schmaltz
- Part V. Categories:
- 13. Reductive realism: Suárez on the categories Dominik Perler
- 14. Suárez on time Cecilia Trifogli
- Bibliography
- Index.
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