Form and Matter is a collection of six papers by leading philosophers on topics in contemporary metaphysics looked at from an Aristotelian perspective. Topics covered include substance, material constitution, the metaphysics of mind, the nature of mixture,and the analysis of what it is to be a living thing.
About the Author
David S. Oderberg is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading. Author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (1993); co-editor of Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (1997).
Features
Collection of original papers by leading philosophers on issues at the forefront of current metaphysics.
Concise and fascinating overview of the way Aristotelian philosophy is being applied in exciting ways to contemporary problems.
Ideal introduction to some of the central issues in contemporary metaphysics.
