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Contents
Introduction - Gregory T. Doolan
Part One. The Subject Matter of Metaphysics
1. The Science of Being as Being in Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wippel - Robert Sokolowski
2. The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late Antiquity - Dominic O’Meara
3. Why Is Metaphysics called “First Philosophy” in the Middle Ages? - Jan A. Aertsen
4. The Fragile Convergence: Structures of Metaphysical Thinking - Andreas Speer
Part Two. Metaphysical Aporiae
5. Aquinas on Substance as a Metaphysical Genus - Gregory T. Doolan
6. A Scholastic Perspective on the Individuation of Races - Jorge J. E. Gracia
7. Merely Metaphysical Possibility - James Ross
Part Three. The Two Theologies
8. The Role of Metaphysics in the Theology of Godfrey of Fontaines - Stephen F. Brown
9. Thomas Aquinas on Philosophy and the Preambles of Faith - John F. Wippel
10. Thomas Aquinas on Demonstrating God’s Providence - Brian J. Shanley, O.P.
11. Eternity, Simplicity, and Presence - Eleonore Stump
12. Why Bodies as Well as Souls in the Life to Come? - Marilyn McCord Adams
Bibliography
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Terms