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This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically oriented study of medieval ontology against the background of the current metaphysical debate on the nature of material objects. Volume Two makes available to scholars one of the culminating points in the medieval reception of Aristotle's metaphysical thought by presenting the first critical edition of Book VII of Paul of Venice's Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (1420-1424).

Few philosophical books have been so influential in the development of Western thought as Aristotle's Metaphysics. For centuries Aristotle's most celebrated work has been regarded as a source of inspiration as well as the starting point for every investigation into the structure of reality. Not surprisingly, the topics discussed in the book - the scientific status of ontology and metaphysics, the foundations of logical truths, the notions of essence and existence, the nature of material objects and their properties, the status of mathematical entities, just to mention some - are still...

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.