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• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• SECTION I: CATEGORIES AND BEYOND
• What is an Ontological Category?
• Scholastic Debates about Beings of Reason and Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics
• SECTION II: METAPHYSICAL STRUCTURE
• What Is Constituent Ontology?
• Elemental Transformation in Aristotle: Three Dilemmas for the Traditional Account
• Essential Dependence, Truthmaking, and Mereology: Then and Now
• SECTION III: SUBSTANCE & ACCIDENT
• Essence and Ontology
• An Aristotelian Argument Against Bare Particulars
• The Ontology of Number: Is Number an Accident?
• SECTION IV: EXISTENCE
• Existential Inertia
• Aquinas vs. Buridan on Essence and Existence, and the Commensurability of Paradigms
• SECTION V: MODALITIES
• Potentiality in Scholasticism (potentiae) and the Contemporary Debate on “Powers”
• Dispositional Necessity and Ontological Possibility
• The Optimal and the Necessary in Leibniz’ Mathematical Framing of the Compossible
• SECTION VI: PREDICATION
• The Interpretation(s) of Predication
• Towards a Thomistic Theory of Predication
• Authors
• General Index
• Index of Persons