Frank A Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1116440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank A Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS F A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0878-6891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Supersession and Superseded Causes in Aristotle
Aristotle’s theory of causes requires a first, unmoved mover outside the sublunary world, along with soul as first and unmoved mover in the natural world below. Aristotle separates the charmed group of causes headed by soul that are jointly sufficient for typical animal behaviour from external causes. The border between external and charmed is permeable: crops growing in the field are co-opted to become an instrument of soul that nourishes the an…
How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta
Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta --one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But people have increasingly come to recognize how little Aristotle says in Zeta about his own theory of (Aristotelian) form and matter. Instead, he spends the bulk of the book examining …
Predication, Things, and Kinds in Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
What in Aristotle corresponds, in whole or (more likely) in part, to our contemporary notion of predication? This paper sketches counterparts in Aristotle’s text to our theories of expression and of truth, and on this basis inquires into his treatment of sentences assigning an individual to its kinds. In some recent accounts, the Metaphysics offers a fresh look at such sentences in terms of matter and form, in contrast to the simpler theory on of…
Parmenides' Modal Fallacy
In his great poem, Parmenides uses an argument by elimination to select the correct "way of inquiry" from a pool of two, the ways of is and of is not, joined later by a third, "mixed" way of is and is not. Parmenides' first two ways are soon given modal upgrades – is becomes cannot not be, and is not becomes necessarily is not (B2, 3-6) – and these are no longer contradictories of one another. And is the common view right, that Parmenides rejects…
Aristotle on the Homonymy of Being
Is There Room for Anaxagoras in an Aristotelian Theory of Mind?
In De anima 3. 4, Aristotle sets himself the twin tasks of identifying what is distinctive about mind or nous-about ‘the part of the soul with which the soul knows and understands’ (429"10-11, cf. 23)-and of explaining how thinking ever comes about. At the close of the chapter he pursues two connected puzzles that threaten to undermine his work on the second task.
G ERTRUDE B ELL , The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell (Bethesda, Md
Though Sir William Jones's captivating English version of a ghazal of Hafez, first published in 1771, inspired many translators in the final years of the 18th and early years of the 19th century, none succeeded in producing a living, breathing body of Hafez's work in English. Goethe, of course, lavished his admiration on Hafez in the West–Östliche Divan , and Ralph Waldo Emerson echoed and amplified this praise in America with a number of English…
Self-knowledge in Aristotle
Substance, Predication, and Unity in Aristotle
Aristotle on the Unity of Substance
Aristotle on the Relation between a Thing and its Matter
Conspicuous entries in the early ontology of Aristotle’s Categories and Topics include individual substances, for example a, and their accidents, for example Φ. If some accounts are right, his ontology also makes room for accidental compounds of individual substances with their various accidents, for example a + Φ: in English, Socrates seated, musical Coriscus, and the like.
Teleology and Material/Efficient Causes in Aristotle
Form and Predication in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
What is Aristotle's Theory of Essence?
In this paper, I attempt to set out some of the main views about essence which Aristotle puts forward in Book Z of the Metaphysics. A central feature of Aristotle's account, as we shall see, is his distinction between primary and secondary cases of essence, and a similiar distinction in connection with the related notions of substance and definition. This division between primary and secondary cases means that Aristotle may well have two very dif…
Accidental sameness in Aristotle
Parmenides on separation and the knowability of the forms
Plato on "Not"
Research Article| January 01 1976 Plato on "Not" Frank A. Lewis Frank A. Lewis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California Studies in Classical Antiquity (1976) 9: 89–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010702 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Did Plato Discover the "Estin" of Identity?
Research Article| January 01 1975 Did Plato Discover the "Estin" of Identity? Frank A. Lewis Frank A. Lewis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California Studies in Classical Antiquity (1975) 8: 113–143. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010686 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cit…
Aristotle on the Homonymy of Being
Predication, Things, and Kinds in Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
What in Aristotle corresponds, in whole or (more likely) in part, to our contemporary notion of predication? This paper sketches counterparts in Aristotle’s text to our theories of expression and of truth, and on this basis inquires into his treatment of sentences assigning an individual to its kinds. In some recent accounts, the Metaphysics offers a fresh look at such sentences in terms of matter and form, in contrast to the simpler theory on of…
Parmenides' Modal Fallacy
In his great poem, Parmenides uses an argument by elimination to select the correct "way of inquiry" from a pool of two, the ways of is and of is not, joined later by a third, "mixed" way of is and is not. Parmenides' first two ways are soon given modal upgrades – is becomes cannot not be, and is not becomes necessarily is not (B2, 3-6) – and these are no longer contradictories of one another. And is the common view right, that Parmenides rejects…
Aristotle on the Unity of Substance
Did Plato Discover the "Estin" of Identity?
Research Article| January 01 1975 Did Plato Discover the "Estin" of Identity? Frank A. Lewis Frank A. Lewis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California Studies in Classical Antiquity (1975) 8: 113–143. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010686 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cit…
Plato on "Not"
Research Article| January 01 1976 Plato on "Not" Frank A. Lewis Frank A. Lewis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California Studies in Classical Antiquity (1976) 9: 89–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/25010702 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Parmenides on separation and the knowability of the forms
Accidental sameness in Aristotle
What is Aristotle's Theory of Essence?
In this paper, I attempt to set out some of the main views about essence which Aristotle puts forward in Book Z of the Metaphysics. A central feature of Aristotle's account, as we shall see, is his distinction between primary and secondary cases of essence, and a similiar distinction in connection with the related notions of substance and definition. This division between primary and secondary cases means that Aristotle may well have two very dif…
Form and Predication in Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Teleology and Material/Efficient Causes in Aristotle
Aristotle on the Relation between a Thing and its Matter
Conspicuous entries in the early ontology of Aristotle’s Categories and Topics include individual substances, for example a, and their accidents, for example Φ. If some accounts are right, his ontology also makes room for accidental compounds of individual substances with their various accidents, for example a + Φ: in English, Socrates seated, musical Coriscus, and the like.
Substance, Predication, and Unity in Aristotle
Aristotle on the Unity of Substance
Self-knowledge in Aristotle
G ERTRUDE B ELL , The Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell (Bethesda, Md
Though Sir William Jones's captivating English version of a ghazal of Hafez, first published in 1771, inspired many translators in the final years of the 18th and early years of the 19th century, none succeeded in producing a living, breathing body of Hafez's work in English. Goethe, of course, lavished his admiration on Hafez in the West–Östliche Divan , and Ralph Waldo Emerson echoed and amplified this praise in America with a number of English…
Is There Room for Anaxagoras in an Aristotelian Theory of Mind?
In De anima 3. 4, Aristotle sets himself the twin tasks of identifying what is distinctive about mind or nous-about ‘the part of the soul with which the soul knows and understands’ (429"10-11, cf. 23)-and of explaining how thinking ever comes about. At the close of the chapter he pursues two connected puzzles that threaten to undermine his work on the second task.
Aristotle on the Homonymy of Being
Parmenides' Modal Fallacy
In his great poem, Parmenides uses an argument by elimination to select the correct "way of inquiry" from a pool of two, the ways of is and of is not, joined later by a third, "mixed" way of is and is not. Parmenides' first two ways are soon given modal upgrades – is becomes cannot not be, and is not becomes necessarily is not (B2, 3-6) – and these are no longer contradictories of one another. And is the common view right, that Parmenides rejects…
Predication, Things, and Kinds in Aristotle’s Metaphysics”
What in Aristotle corresponds, in whole or (more likely) in part, to our contemporary notion of predication? This paper sketches counterparts in Aristotle’s text to our theories of expression and of truth, and on this basis inquires into his treatment of sentences assigning an individual to its kinds. In some recent accounts, the Metaphysics offers a fresh look at such sentences in terms of matter and form, in contrast to the simpler theory on of…
How Aristotle gets by in Metaphysics Zeta
Frank A. Lewis presents a closely argued exposition of Metaphysics Zeta --one of Aristotle's most dense and controversial texts. It is commonly understood to contain Aristotle's deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and surrounding metaphysical issues. But people have increasingly come to recognize how little Aristotle says in Zeta about his own theory of (Aristotelian) form and matter. Instead, he spends the bulk of the book examining …
Supersession and Superseded Causes in Aristotle
Aristotle’s theory of causes requires a first, unmoved mover outside the sublunary world, along with soul as first and unmoved mover in the natural world below. Aristotle separates the charmed group of causes headed by soul that are jointly sufficient for typical animal behaviour from external causes. The border between external and charmed is permeable: crops growing in the field are co-opted to become an instrument of soul that nourishes the an…
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