Aristotle's Theory of Abstraction

• Main Author: Bäck, Allan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, 73
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Logic.; Metaphysics.; Classical Philosophy.

This book investigates Aristotle’s views on abstraction and explores how he uses it. In this work, the author follows Aristotle in focusing on the scientific detail first and then approaches the metaphysical claims, and so creates a reconstructed theory that explains many puzzles of Aristotle’s thou...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Logic: The Formal Structure of Abstraction
• Chapter 1. The Conception of Abstraction
• Chapter 2. Abstract Relata
• Chapter 3. The Relation of Abstraction
• Science: The Psychological Process of Abstraction
• Chapter 4. Perceiving
• Chapter 5. Thinking
• Chapter 6. The Process of Abstraction
• Metaphysics: Aristotle’s Abstract Ontology
• Chapter 7. The Subject of Metaphysics
• Chapter 8. Aristotle’s Buddhism
• Chapter 9. Parts of Animals
• Chapter 10. Aristotle’s Nominalism
• Appendix
• The Formal Structure of Abstraction.