TY - JOUR N2 - As it is well known, Peter F. Strawson in the introduction to his book Individuals. An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics makes a famous distinction between two types of metaphysics: revisionist and descriptive. Descriptive metaphysics is defined there as a kind of philosophical reflection that “describes the actual structure of our thinking about the world”. Another formula used by Strawson is that descriptive metaphysics “reveals the most general features of our conceptual framework”. In the same text Strawson mentions Aristotle as one of the most important representatives of descriptive metaphysics. However, the question may be asked, whether the formulas used by Strawson adequately describe the actual conception of metaphysics in Aristotle. After all, the aim of Aristotle’s inquiry was to reveal the structure of real beings and to find the causes that are at work in reality, and not only to study our concepts with which we describe the world. In my paper I discuss different ways in which Aristotle’s metaphysical project might be understood and I try to determine to what extent it can be associated with descriptive metaphysics in the sense defined by Strawson. In particular, I inquire to what extent Aristotle uses in his metaphysics the methods proposed in his theory of dialectic, whose aim was to help in the study commonly accepted concepts and beliefs (endoxa). L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114340/PDF/P.Filoz.%204-19%2011-T.Tiuryn.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114340 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 182 DO - 10.24425/pfns.2019.130918 KW - Aristotle KW - P.F. Strawson KW - descriptive metaphysics A1 - Tiuryn, Tomasz PB - Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN PB - Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego DA - 2020.01.13 T1 - Concepts or things? Aristotle and P.F. Strawson’s conception of descriptive metaphysics SP - 161 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114340 T2 - Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria ER -