The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Oxford Handbooks Series

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and Japan; it also, appropriately, includes a preponderance of authors from the University of Oxford, which has been a center of Aristotelian studies for many centuries. The volume equally reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today: such activity ranges from 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 handbook: 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. No one of these enterprises exhausts the field. On the contrary, one of the most welcome and enlivening features of the contemporary Aristotelian scene is precisely the cross-fertilization these mutually beneficial and complementary activities offer one another. The volume, 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, and distinctively, looks both backwards and forwards: two chapters recount Aristotle's treatment of earlier philosophers, who proved formative to his own orientations and methods, and another three chapters chart the long afterlife of Aristotle's philosophy, in Late Antiquity, in the Islamic World, and in the Latin West.

Preface. Notes on the Contributors. List of Aristotle's Works. I. Aristotle's Philosophical Milieu . 1. Aristotle's Philosophical Life and Writings, Christopher Shields. 2. Aristotle on Earlier Natural Science, Edward Hussey. 3. Science and Scientific Inquiry in Aristotle: a Platonic Provenance, Robert Bolton. II. The Framework of Philosophy: Tools and Methods. 4. Aristotle's Categorial Scheme, Paul Studtmann. 5. De Interpretatione, Hermann Weidemann. 6. Aristotle's Logic, Paolo Crivelli. 7. Aristotle's Philosophical Method, C. D. C. Reeve. 8. Aristotle on Heuristic Enquiry and Demonstration of What It Is, Kei Chiba. III. Explanation and Nature. 9. Alteration and Persistence: Form and Matter in the Physics and De Generatione et Corruptione, S. Marc Cohen. 10. Teleology, David Charles. 11. Aristotle on the Infinite, Ursula Coope. 12. The Complexity of Aristotle's Study of Animals, James Lennox. 13. Aristotle on the Separability of Mind, Fred D. Miller, Jr.. IV. Being and Beings. 14. Being qua Being, Christopher Shields. 15. Substances, Coincidentals, and Aristotle's Constituent Ontology, Michael Loux. 16. Actuality and Potentiality, Stephen Makin. 17. Aristotle's Theology, Stephen Menn. 18. Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics, David Bostock. V. Ethics and Politics. 19. Conceptions of Happiness, Terence Irwin. 20. Aristotle on Becoming Good: Habituation, Reflection, and Perception, Richard Kraut. 21. Aristotle's Politics, Pierre Pellegrin. VI. Rhetoric and the Arts. 22. Aristotle on the Moral Psychology of Persuasion, Christoff Rapp. 23. Aristotle on Poetry, Annamaria Schiaparelli and Paolo Crivelli. VII. After Aristotle. 24. Meaning: Ancient Comments on Five Lines of Aristotle, Richard Sorabji. 25. Aristotle in the Arabic Commentary Tradition, Peter Adamson. 26. The Latin Aristotle, Robert Pasnau. Bibliography. Index Locorum. Index Nominum. Subject Index.

Christopher Shields is Tutor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and Professor of Classical Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He is the author of Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Classical Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, Aristotle, Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, and, with Robert Pasnau, The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. He is the editor of The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy. Forthcoming is Aristotle's De Anima, Translated with Introduction and Notes.