The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle

Christopher Shields is Shuster Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and an Honorary Research Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He is the author of Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 1999); Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2003); Aristotle (Routledge, 2007); Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2011); with Robert Pasnau, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (Westview, 2003; 2nd rev. ed. Oxford University Press, 2015); and Aristotle’s De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002), The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (Oxford University Press, 2012), and general editor (with Becko Copenhaver) of the six-volume The History of the Philosophy of Mind (Routledge, 2018).

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Shields, Christopher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle ( 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic , 6 Nov. 2012 ), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195187489.001.0001, accessed 4 Sept. 2024.

Abstract

This book reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from across the globe, and including a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. It explores the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today, including the primarily textual and philological to the application of broadly Aristotelian themes to contemporary problems irrespective of their narrow textual fidelity. In between these extremes one finds the core of Aristotelian scholarship as it is practiced today, and as it is primarily represented in this volume: textual exegesis and criticism. Even within this more limited core activity, one witnesses a rich range of pursuits, with some scholars seeking primarily to understand Aristotle in his own philosophical milieu and others seeking rather to place him into direct conversation with contemporary philosophers and their present-day concerns. The book, prefaced with an introduction to Aristotle's life and works by the editor, covers the main areas of Aristotelian philosophy and intellectual enquiry: ethics, metaphysics, politics, logic, language, psychology, rhetoric, poetics, theology, physical and biological investigation, and philosophical method. It also looks both backwards and forwards: two articles recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy: in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West.

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