Gregory Т. Doolan, Introduction .............................. 1
Part One. The Subject Matter of Metaphysics
1 Robert Sokolowski, The Science of Being as Being in
Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wippel ............................... 9
2 Dominic O'Meara, The Transformation of Metaphysics in Late
Antiquity ................................................... 36
3 Jan A. Aertsen, Why Is Metaphysics Called "First
Philosophy" in the Middle Ages? ............................. 53
4 Andreas Speer, The Fragile Convergence: Structures of
Metaphysical Thinking ....................................... 70
Part Two. Metaphysical Aporiae
5 Gregory T. Doolan, Aquinas on Substance as a Metaphysical
Genus ....................................................... 99
6 Jorge J.E. Gracia, A Scholastic Perspective on the
Individuation of Races ..................................... 129
7 James Ross, Merely Metaphysical Possibility ................ 154
Part Three. The Two Theologies
8 Stephen F. Brown, The Role of Metaphysics in the Theology
of Godfrey of Fontaines .................................... 177
9 John F. Wippel, Thomas Aquinas on Philosophy and the
Preambles of Faith ......................................... 196
10 Brian J. Shanley O.P., Thomas Aquinas on Demonstrating
God's Providence ........................................... 221
11 Eleonore Stump, Eternity, Simplicity, and Presence ......... 243
12 Marilyn McCord Adams, Why Bodies as Well as Souls in the
Life to Come? .............................................. 264
Bibliography ............................................... 299
Contributors ............................................... 315
Index of Names ............................................. 319
Index of Terms ............................................. 321
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