Table of contents

Introduction: Taking Metaphysics Seriously
   William Sweet (St Francis Xavier University)............................................................1

Chapter 1 Does Being Have a Nature?: Capreolus, Thomas Aquinas, and Analogy
  Lawrence Dewan, op (Dominican College, Ottawa) ................................................ 17

Chapter 2 Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel
  Riccardo Pozzo (Catholic University of America) ....................................................57

Chapter 3 Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche's Path to the Holy
  Daniel Ahern (University of New Brunswick) .........................................................67

Chapter 4 Metaphysics West and East: Bosanquet and Sankara
  Gautam Satapathy (University of Hyderabad, India)................................................83

Chapter 5 Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato
  Fran O'Rourke (University College, Dublin)...........................................................101

Chapter 6 The Integration of History and Metaphysics
  Kenneth Schmitz (John Paul II Institute, Washington) ...........................................121

Chapter 7 Metaphysics, Mathematics and Pre-Established Harmony
  Richard Feist (University of Ottawa) ....................................................................139

Chapter 8 Can 'Creation' be a Metaphysical Concept?
  Peter Harris (Memorial University) ......................................................................155

Chapter 9 Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt's Account of Evil and
Human Freedom
  Charles Le Page (Dominican College) ..................................................................165

Chapter 10 Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and
the Generalization of the Mathematical Function
  James Bradley (Memorial University) ..................................................................185

Chapter 11 Agents, Causes and Explanations: The Idea of a Metaphysical System
  Leslie Armour (Dominican College, Ottawa) ........................................................203

Chapter 12 Metaphysics and Idealism
  W.J. Mander (University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College) ...........................229

Chapter 13 Empiricism: Principles and Problems
  Fred Wilson (University of Toronto) ...................................................................245

Chapter 14 Metaphysics as "de Insolubilibus"
  Martin M. Tweedale (University of Alberta).........................................................283

Chapter 15 Designing Metaphysics
  Elizabeth Trott (Ryerson Polytechnic University) ...............................................  295

Index.................................................................................................................. ..305
 
 

Contributors
 

William Sweet is Professor of Philosophy at St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada) and author of Idealism and Rights (1997) and Anti-foundationalism, Faith, and Community (2003). He has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including La philosophie de la religion à la fin du vingtième siècle (1993), Religion, Modernity and Post Modernity (1997), God and Argument (1999), The Bases of Ethics (2000), Idealism, Metaphysics and Community (2001), Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism (2002) and, most recently, The Philosophy of History: a reexamination (2003) and Philosophical Theory and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2003). In 2001 he gave the Dharma Endowment Lectures at Dharmaram College, Bangalore, India. He is author of some eighty articles, primarily in the philosophy of Jacques Maritain, the epistemology of religion, and the history of British idealism, and is editor of The Collected Works of Bernard Bosanquet, 20 volumes (1999) and Volume VI of The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain.

*Daniel Ahern is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada). He is the author of Nietzsche as Cultural Physician (selected by Choice as one of the "Outstanding Academic Books for 1996"), and has published in The Review of Metaphysics.

*Leslie Armour is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Research Professor in the graduate programme at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa, Canada). He is also Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. His books include The Rational and the Real (19  ), The Concept of Truth (19  ), Logic and Reality (19  ), The Faces of Reason (19  , with Elizabeth Trott), The Idea of Canada (19  ), The Conceptualization of the Inner Life (19  , with E.T. Bartlett III), Being and Idea (19  ), and Infini-Rien: Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox (19  ). Currently, he is completing books on the metaphysics of community and on skepticism. He divides his time between London and Ottawa.

*James Bradley is Professor of Philosophy at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is editor of Philosophy after F.H. Bradley (1996), and has published in God and Argument, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Krisis, Archives de philosophie, The Heythrop Journal, Études maritainiennes, Process Studies and other journals.
 
*Lawrence Dewan, O.P. is Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa, Canada) and author of articles in Acta Philosophica, The New Scholasticism, Laval théologique et philosophique, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Modern Schoolman, Dionysius, Dialogue (Canada), and other journals. 

*Richard Feist is Research Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa, Canada). He is editor of Husserl and the Sciences: Selected Perspectives, and has published in The Philosophy of History: a reexamination, and in OeCulture, Dialogue, Journal of Philosophy, Protosoziologie, Science et esprit, Synthese, De Philosophia, and other journals
 
*Peter Harris is Honorary Research Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) where he taught from 1971-1998. He is author of On Human Life: an examination of Humanae Vitae (London, 1968) and has published in God and Argument (ed. William Sweet). He completed his doctoral studies in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome and at St Catherine's College, Oxford. His recent research has focussed on Heidegger and his antecedents with particular interest in Creation. He is preparing a collection of essays on these topics under the title, Creative Events. 

*Charles LePage received his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology (Ottawa, Canada). He is a professional editor (Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa) and lectures at Saint Paul University (Ottawa). He has published in Maritain Studies and Gnosis, and is the Editor of the Bulletin of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association. 

*William Mander teaches philosophy at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He is Treasurer of the Bradley Society and Co Editor of Bradley Studies. He is the author of An Introduction to Bradley's Metaphysics (1994), editor of Perspectives on the Logic and Metaphysics of F.H. Bradley (1996) and Anglo-American Idealism, 1865-1927 (2000), and co-editor (with Carol Keene) of The Collected Works of F.H. Bradley, 12 volumes (1999). He has also published in The Modern Schoolman, History of Philosophy Quarterly, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Religious Studies, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Idealism, Metaphysics and Community.

*Fran O'Rourke is Senior Lecturer at University College Dublin. He graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and did postgraduate studies in Vienna, Louvain, Cologne, Munich and Leuven, where he received his PhD. He has published Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas, as well as articles on Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Aquinas, and Heidegger. He has held Onassis and Fulbright Fellowships; in 2003 he was Visiting Research Professor at Marquette University. 

*Riccardo Pozzo is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Verona. He is author of Georg Friedrich Meiers Vernunftlehre: Eine historisch-systematische Untersuchung (2000), Kant und das Problem einer Einleitung in die Logik. Ein Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der historischen Hintergründe von Kants Logik-Kolleg (1989) and Hegel: ‘Introductio in Philosophiam' Dagli studi ginnasiali alla prima logica (1782-1801) (1989). He has also edited The Impact of Aristotelianism on Modern Philosophy (2001); Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der Universität Königsberg (1720-1804) (with Michael Oberhausen) (1999); John Locke,  Of the Conduct of the Understanding. A Discourse of Miracles In der Übersetzung Königsberg 1755 von Georg David Kypke (1996), Festgabe für Norbert Hinske zum 65. Geburstag (with Terry Boswell and Clemens Schwaiger) (1996), 2 vols., and Zur Rekonstruktion der praktischen Philosophie: Gedenkschrift für Karl-Heinz Ilting (with Karl-Otto Apel) (1990). He has also published in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, The Review of Metaphysics,  Medioevo, Fenomenologia e società, Hegel-Jahrbuch, the Rivista di storia della filosofia, Kant-Studien, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, History of Science, History of Universities, Topoi, and other journals.

*Gautam Satapathy is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Hyderabad in India. He was awarded an M.Phil. degree for a thesis on "Alasdair MacIntyre: A Critique of Modernity," and has presented papers on topics in modern Indian and Western philosophy.  

Kenneth Schmitz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and author of Art and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy (1980), At the center of the human drama: the philosophy of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (1993), The gift-creation.  The Aquinas lecture 1982 (1982), What has Clio to do with Athena?: Etienne Gilson: historian and philosopher (1987). He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C.

*Martin Tweedale is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He is the author of Abailard on Universals (1976) and co-editor (with R Bosley) of Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy: Interactive Discourses among the Major Figures (1997) and Aristotle and his Medieval Interpreters (1992). He has published in Dialogue, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Maritain Studies, and Phronesis, and in Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science,  Die Philosophie im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert, and in A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy. 

*Elizabeth Trott is Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She is co-author (with Leslie Armour) of The Faces of Reason: an essay on philosophy and culture in English Canada, 1850-1950 (1981)  and has published in Dialogue, Maritain Studies, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Bradley Studies, and in the journal of the American Association of Canadian Studies. She has also contributed to edited volumes on Philosophy after F.H. Bradley, God and Argument, Anglo American Idealism - 1865-1927, and Idealism, Metaphysics, and Community.

*Fred Wilson is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Best known for his studies in the philosophy of science and for work on David Hume and J.S. Mill, he is the author of Socrates, Lucretius, Camus: Two Philosophical Traditions on Death (2001), The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought. Seven Studies (1999); Hume's Defence of Causal Inference (1997); Empiricism and Darwin's Science (1991); Psychological Analysis and the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1990); Laws and Other Worlds : A Humean Account of Laws and Counterfactuals (1987) and Explanation, Causation and Deduction (1985).