Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic
approaches to causation substance essence modality identity persistence teleology and
other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on
these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics so as to facilitate the analytic reader¿s
understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader¿s understanding of contemporary
analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the
organizing theme and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is
demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view but Scotist and Suarezian
positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position. Edward Feser is
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena California USA. His
most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism
and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.
