Bücher der Reihe Oxford Aristotle Studies Series

"De Interpretatione" is among Aristotle's most influential and widely-read writings. Whitaker presents a systematic study of this work, and offers a radical view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, based upon a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the text.

Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. He aims, on the basis of a careful reading of Aristotle's texts and many subsequent works, to reach a clear understanding of his claims and arguments, and to assess their truth and their importance to philosophy ancient and modern.

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this. Beere's careful reading of Metaphysics Theta shows the way to an analogical conception of energeia.

Michael Wedin argues against the prevailing view that Aristotle's views on the nature of reality are fundamentally inconsistent: the difference between the early theory of the Categories and the later theory of the Metaphysics reflects the fact that Aristotle is engaged in quite different projects in the two works.

Jessica Moss presents a bold and controversial account of Aristotle's moral psychology. She argues that on Aristotle's view things appear good to us in virtue of a psychological capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual phenomena: phantasia ('imagination'). Her interpretation restricts the role of reason in ethics, and prioritises pleasure instead.

What is the relation between time and change? This book argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. Based on this interpretation, it explains two Aristotelian claims such as: the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.

Aristotle's has been the most influential philosophy in the whole history of science. This book examines its most controversial aspect: Aristotle's emphasis on the importance of goals and purposes to scientific understanding - his teleology. It shows also how Aristotle's theory has implications for environmental ethics and for the theory of value.

Shields presents a study of a feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts: how a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. He examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity and demonstrates the continuing fruitfulness of his methodology.