Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE 5
4. SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND
5. What is an Ontological Category? 11
6. Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics 25
7. SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE
8. What Is Constituent Ontology? 43
9. Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account 59
10. Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now 73
11. SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT
12. Essence and Ontology 93
13. An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars 113
14. The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident? 123
15. SECTION IV: EXISTENCE
16. Existential Inertia 143
17. Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms 169
18. SECTION V: MODALITIES
19. Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on “Powers” 185
20. Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility 195
21. The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz’ Mathematical Framing of the Compossible 209
22. SECTION VI: PREDICATION
23. The Interpretation(s) of Predication 229
24. Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication 247
25. Authors 257
26. General Index 263
27. Index of Persons 281