Aristotle: Metaphysics
Book Iota

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues. The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed. Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of well-established volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material. Laura M. Castelli presents a new translation and comprehensive commentary of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, which provides Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, what contraries are, and what the function of contraries is in shaping the structure of reality into genera and species. There are some objective difficulties in making sense of Iota as a part of the Metaphysics and as a piece of Aristotelian philosophy. Castelli's Introduction tackles such general difficulties, while the commentary provides a detailed analysis of the arguments, of the more specific issues and of the philosophical points emerging from Aristotle's text. The English translation, based on Ross' critical edition, is meant as a tool for readers with or without knowledge of ancient Greek.

Laura M. Castelli received her doctorate in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 2008. Before joining LMU Munich as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow she worked at the Scuola Normale of Pisa, the University of Oxford (Exeter College and Christ Church, Faculty of Philosophy) and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. She is currently working on a project of research sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on topical and analytical approaches to deductive arguments in Aristotle and the post-Aristotelian tradition. She is the author of various publications on Aristotle, Plato and the history of Aristotelianism.