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The 18th 'Symposium Aristotelicum', dedicated to the first book of Aristotle's 'Metaphysics', was held in Leuven July 7-13, 2008; it was hosted by the international center Aristoteles Latinus and the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at...

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Corporate Author: Symposium Aristotelicum Louvain, Belgium
Other Authors: Aristotle, Steel, Carlos G., Primavesi, Oliver
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Language Notes:English and Ancient Greek.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Aristotle. > Metaphysics > Congresses.
Substance (Philosophy) > Congresses.
Metaphysics > Early works to 1800 > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • The desire to know (Metaphysics A1) / Giuseppe Cambiano
  • A science of first principles (Metaphysics A2) / Sarah Broadie
  • History and dialectic (Metaphysics A3, 983a24-984b8) / Rachel Barney
  • 'The next principle' (Metaphysics A3-4, 984b8-985b22) / Gábor Betech
  • Pythagoreanism : emerging from the Presocratic fog (Metaphysics A5) / Malcolm Schofield
  • Plato as seen by Aristotle (Metaphysics A6) / Carlos Steel
  • Critique of earlier philosophers on the Good and the Causes (Metaphysics A7-A8 989a18) / Stephen Menn
  • Second thoughts on some Presocratics (Metaphysics A8, 989a18-990a32) / Oliver Primavesi
  • The doctrine of forms under critique - Part I (Metaphysics A9, 990a33-991b9) / Dorothea Frede
  • The doctrine of forms under critique - Part II (Metaphysics A9, 991b9-993a10) / Michel Crubellier
  • Conclusion
  • and retrospect (Metaphysics A10) / John M. Cooper
  • Aristotle, Metaphysics A: a new critical edition with introduction / Oliver Primavesi
  • Text of Metaphysics A.