Suarez's Metaphysical Disputations
A Critical Guide
Published on 30. October 2025
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Hardback
308 pages
978-1-009-33672-7 (ISBN)
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Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), one of the most important early modern scholastic philosophers, had considerable influence not only on canonical early modern philosophers such as Descartes and Leibniz, but even more so on subsequent scholastic philosophers and theologians. His Metaphysical Disputations of 1597 was intended to provide the reader with a complete grounding in metaphysics and is one of the most detailed, comprehensive elaborations of an Aristotelian metaphysics ever published. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on a wide range of topics in the Metaphysical Disputations, including Suarez's metaphysics of modality, his nominalism, and his accounts of the categories, prime matter, falsity, time, and causation. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of early modern scholasticism, and also for those researching later thinkers whose work was influenced by Suarez.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
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599 gr
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978-1-009-33672-7 (9781009336727)
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Introduction Shane Duarte and Sydney Penner; Part I. The Character of Suarez's Metaphysical Disputations: 1. The systematic framework of the disputationes metaphysicae and its dialectical character Daniel Novotny; Part II. Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions: 2. Suarez's metaphysics of modality Stephan Schmid; 3. The analogy of the true: Suarez's explanation of the relation between ontic truth and epistemic truth in the scholastic context Rolf Darge; 4. Suarez, extrinsic denomination, and the explicatio entis Shane Duarte; 5. Suarez on the origin of falsity Sydney Penner; 6. Something about nothing: Suarez's nominalism Christopher Shields; 7. Suarez on distinctions Marleen Rozemond; Part III. Causation: 8. Motio metaphorica: Suarez on final causality Giuseppe Capriati; 9. Suarez on the influx or causality of the final cause Kara Richardson; 10. Is efficient causation intensional? Suarez on per se and per accidens efficient causation Jacob A. Tuttle; Part IV. Corporeal Substance: 11. Suarez's partial pluralism about substantial form Brian Embry; 12. Suarez on prime matter, extension, and quantity Tad Schmaltz; Part V. Categories: 13. Reductive realism: Suarez on the categories Dominik Perler; 14. Suarez on time Cecilia Trifogli; Bibliography; Index.