CAM=Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics
MP=The Metaphysics of Powers
SO=The Structure of Objects
Weeks One-Three: Theseus’ Ship Sails Again
- Week One: A Puzzle about Identity
- Tahko, ‘Introduction,’ CAM, 1
- Shields, ‘Aristotle,’ Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy
- Week Two: Flat vs. Privileged Ontology
- Quine, ‘On What There Is'
- Fine, ‘What is Metaphysics?’ CAM, 8
- Tahko, ‘In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics,’ CAM 26
- Koslicki, ‘In Defense of Substance,’ Grazer Philosophische Studien 91 (2015), 59-80
- Week Three: A Categorial Scheme
- Aristotle, Categories 1-5
- Studtmann, ‘Aristotle's Categories,’ Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
- Bird, ‘Are Any Kinds Ontologially Fundamental?’ CAM 94
- Rosenkranz, ‘Ontological Categories,’ CAM 83
- Heil, ‘Are Four Categories Too Many?’ CAM, 83
- Simons, ‘Four Categories—and More,’ CAM 126
- Recommended: Lowe, The-Four Category Ontology (Oxford University Press: 2006)
Weeks Four-Six: Hylomorphism
- Week Four: Hylomorphism Old and New
- Aristotle, Physics i 7-8, ii 1-2
- Johnston, ‘Hylomorphism,’ Journal of Philosophy 103 (2006), 652-698
- Rea, ‘Hylomorphism Reconditioned,’ Philosophical Perspectives 25 (2012), 341-358
- Marmodoro, ‘Aristotle’s Hylomorphism without Reconditioning,’ Philosophical Inquiry 36 (2013), 5-22
- Week Five: The Status of Form
- Aristotle, Metaphysics vii 17
- Koslicki, ‘Aristotle’s Mereology and the Status of Form,’ Journal of Philosophy 103 (2006), 715-736
- Week Six: Form and Unity
- Koslicki, 'Substance, Independence and Unity,’ in Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics, ed, E. Feser (Palgrave/Macmillan: 2013), 169-195
- Lewis, ‘Aristotle on the Unity of Substance,’ in F. Lewis and R. Bolton ed., Form, Matter, and Mixture in Aristotle (Wiley-Blackwell: 1995), 222-265
Weeks Seven-Eight: Causation and Powers
- Week Seven: Powers and Properties
- Lowe, ‘On the Individuation of Powers,’ MP 8
- Heil, Powerful Qualities,’ MP 58
- Week Eight: Powers and Causation
- Mumford and Anjum, ‘A Powerful Theory of Causation,’ MP 143
- Bird, ‘Causation and the Manifestation of Powers,’ MP 160
Week Nine: Mid-semester Break
Weeks Ten-Thirteen: Aristotelian Essentialism
- Week Ten: Challenges to Essentialism
- Quine, Word and Object (MIT Press: 1960) [excerpts]
- Van Cleve, 'The Moon and Sixpence,' in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, ed.Hawthorne, T. Sider, and D. Zimmerman (Blackwell, 2008), 321-40.
- Week Eleven: Merely Modal and Aristotelian Essentialism
- Fine, ‘Essence and Modality,’ Philosophical Perspectives 8 (1994), 1–163
- Matthews, ‘Aristotelian Essentialism,’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (1990), 251-262
- Fine, ‘Unified Foundations for Essence and Ground,’ Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (2015), 296-311
- Week Twelve:The Role of Essence in Ontology
- Inman, ‘Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now,’ in L. Novak et al. edd., Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Ontos Verlag: 2013), 73-90
- Lowe, ‘Essence and Ontology,’ in L. Novak et al. edd., Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic (Ontos Verlag: 2013), 93-111
Weeks Thirteen-Sixteen: The Structure of Objects
- Week Thirteen: The Privilege of Life
- Van Inwagen, 'Précis of Material Beings,' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993), 683-686.
- Shields, 'The Dialectic of Life,' Synthese 185 (2012), 103-124
- Week Fourteen: Constituent Ontology
- Wolterstorff, ‘Bergmann’s Constituent Ontology,’ Nous 4 (1970), 109-134
- Loux, ‘What is Constituent Ontology?’ in L. Novak et al. edd., Metaphysics: Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic, 43-57
- Loux, ’Substances, Concidentals, and Aristotle’s Constituent Ontology,’ in C. Shields ed, The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle (Oxford University Press: 372-399
- Week Fifteen: Aristotelian Mereology
- Koslicki, SO
- Week Sixteen: Aristotelian Mereology
- Koslicki, SO