In this book, Jeremy Kirby analyzes Book Gamma of Aristotle's Metaphysics and introduces the debates (or paradoxes as he refers to them) such as relativism versus the idea of a ready-made world, the possibility of true contradictions, the nature and possibility of metaphysics, the limits of thought, and logic.

• Cover
• The Gamma Paradoxes
• The Gamma Paradoxes: An Analysis of the Fourth Book of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Some people have acquired this opinion
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1
  • The Science of Being
    • I.1: The Paradox of Metaphysical Science
    • I.2: Non-Demonstrative Science?
    • I.3: Patzig’s Puzzle
    • I.4: The Unity of Generalis et Specialis Metaphysica
    • I.5: The πρὸς ἓν Domain of Scientific Inquiry
    • I.6: Challenges for a πρὸς ἓν Domain of Being
    • I.7: Substantial and Categorial Ways of Being
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2
    • Contradictions
      • II.1: The Indubitability Argument
      • II.2: The Clincher
      • II.3: The Argument from Monism
      • II.3.1: An Addendum
      • II.4: The Priority of Assertion
      • II.5: The Springs of Action
      • II.6: That to which The More and The Less Relate
      • II.7: The Usual Suspects
      • Notes
  • Chapter 3
    • Truth, Being, and Perspective
      • III.1: Truth, Perspective, and the PNC
      • III.2: Cosmology and Contradiction
      • III.3: Perception and Relativism
      • III.4: Sense and Object
      • III.5: The Contrary Counterexample
      • III.6: Idealism, Nihilism, or Realism?
      • III.7: Realism, Anti-Realism, and Bivalence
      • III.8: Aristotle’s Theory of Truth?
      • III.9: The Paradox of Future Contingency
      • III.10: Prediction, Retro-diction, and Reality
      • III.11: Alethic Extremism, Peritrope Considerations, and the Unmoved Mover
      • Notes
  • Appendix A
    • Aristotle and the Liar Paradox
      • IV.1: Sources for the Liar Paradox in Antiquity
      • IV.2: Sophistical Refutations and the Liar
      • IV.3: Secundum Quid et Simpliciter
      • IV.4: The Oath Sophism
      • IV.5: Aristotle and the Liar Paradox
      • IV.6. Crivelli’s Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Solution
      • IV.7: Several Objections and a Cost-Benefit Comparison
      • IV.8: Wrestling with the Liar
      • Notes
  • Afterword: The Gamma Paradoxes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author