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The Historicity of Artifacts: Use and Counter-Use
Inspired by Sara Ahmed’s notion of ‘queer use,’ I present and extend a neo-Aristotelian theory of artifacts to capture what I call ‘counter-use.’ The theory of artifacts is based on the idea that what they are, how they come to be, and what their ...
Simon J. Evnine
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Nature and Teleology in the 'De Anima': Context for Aristotelian Potentiality
This paper investigates contemporary applications of the Aristotelian conception of potentiality in limit cases of life and death arising from developments in modern science in order to argue that in its current usage, the term is often so far from its ...
Emma Emrich
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The theory of embodiment is used in providing an account of the identity of acts and in providing solutions to various puzzles concerning acts.
Kit Fine
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Essentialist Plenitude and the Semantics of Proper Names
A number of prominent metaphysicians have recently defended a set of ideas which I will call ‘essentialist plenitude.’ Very roughly, and to a first approximation, essentialist plenitude says that wherever there is an object with properties P1, …, P'n ...
Uriah Kriegel
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Three Ones and Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics'
Aristotle’s 'Metaphysics' defends a number of theses about oneness ['to hen']. For interpreting the 'Metaphysics'’ positive henology, two such theses are especially important: (1) 'to hen' and being ['to on'] are equally general and so intimately ...
Adam Crager
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Natural history specimen data linked to collectors and determiners held within, "18 - inventaire général de la flore et de la fonge issu des herbiers - CBNA - inventaires de la flore et de la fonge issus du dépouillement des herbiers".
Bionomia
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