Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics: In Production
After some expected delays, my Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics volume (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) has finally progressed into production! There are still some things that need to be sorted out and I have no idea how long the copy editing will take — that’s entirely up to CUP — but I hope to see the book in print well before the year is over. Since any major changes are unlikely at this point, I dare to publicize the full table of contents (below). I may make (parts of) the introduction available later, but for now this will be the teaser!
1. Tuomas E. Tahko: Introduction
2. Kit Fine: What Is Metaphysics?
3. Tuomas E. Tahko: In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics
4. Tim Crane: Existence and Quantification Reconsidered
5. Eric T. Olson: Identity, Quantification, and Number
6. Gary Rosenkrantz: Ontological Categories
7. Alexander Bird: Are Any Kinds Ontologically Fundamental?
8. John Heil: Are Four Categories Two Too Many?
9. Peter Simons: Four Categories – and More
10. Joshua Hoffman: Neo-Aristotelianism and Substance
11. Louis M. Guenin: Developmental Potential
12. Storrs McCall: The Origin of Life and the Definition of Life
13. Kathrin Koslicki: Essence, Necessity, and Explanation
14. David S. Oderberg: No Potency without Actuality: The Case of Graph Theory
15. E. J. Lowe: A Neo-Aristotelian Substance Ontology: Neither Relational Nor Constituent



Looking forward to this collection. Those are some good names up there! Hopefully I’ll be able to convince the library at the university to buy a copy.
Thanks! Any self-respecting library should certainly get a copy!
I am very, VERY much looking forward to this book.