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A Crazy Idea: Ibn Sīnā on Hylomorphism, the Elements, Mixture and Evolutionary Processes
Theoria, EarlyView.Ibn Sīnā (c. 973‐1037), the Avicenna of Latin fame, developed a unique theory of the elements and their status in mixtures that severely challenged the views of earlier natural philosophers and in its turn was severely challenged by later Latin Schoolmen
J. Mcginnis
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Towards an artistic Account of Nature: Morphology, Hylology, Hylomorphism
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2020 A long philosophical tradition has claimed the fact that the concepts of physis and techne should remain radically distinct. But an equally important tradition has instead considered the question in less abstract terms.
Pier Alberto Porceddu Cilione
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Hylomorphism, Persistence and Identity of Objects
Archivos de Ciencia e InvestigaciónThe present work aims to propose an analysis of the metaphysical problem of identity and persistence of physical objects based on the hylomorphic doctrine, that is to say, the doctrine according to which the physical objects are mereological ...
Henrique de Morais Ribeiro
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Thomistic Hylomorphism and Theistic Evolution
Scientia et Fides, 2023 Working within the framework of Thomistic metaphysics, Mariusz Tabaczek O. P. has developed a version of Catholic theistic evolution that includes speciation, human origins, and the origin of life.
J. Hofmann
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ReligionsThe article introduces the Hylomorphism Inventory (HI), a new instrument designed to measure lay beliefs about the soul–body relationship that are congruent with the Aristotelian–Thomistic framework of hylomorphism.
Paweł Fortuna +4 more
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The Use of Sets (and Other Extensional Entities) in the Analysis of Hylomorphically Complex Objects
Metaphysics, 2018 Hylomorphically complex objects are things that change their parts or matter or that might have, or have had, different parts or matter. Often ontologists analyze such objects in terms of sets (or functions, understood set-theoretically) or other ...
Simon Evnine
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Hylomorphism in Modern Analytical Philosophy [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016 Analytical metaphysics in the 20th century was marked by the predominance of scientifi c reductionism. As a result metaphysics was considered dependent on the natural sciences in its topics and methodology. Conversely, the last two decades introduced new
Karpov Kirill
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Forms as Simple and Individual Grounds of Things’ Natures
Metaphysics, 2018 To understand Aristotle’s conception of form, we have to see clearly the relationship between his account and Plato’s Theory of Forms. I offer a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s Moderate Realism, in which forms are simple particulars that ground the ...
Robert C. Koons
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Fineness of grain and the hylomorphism of experience
Synthese, 2023 A central objection to McDowell’s conceptualism about empirical content concerns the fine-grained phenomenology of experience, which supposedly entails that the actual content of experience cannot be matched in its particularity by our concepts.
Sascha Settegast
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Richard Kilvington’s Theory of Hylomorphism and Qualitative Change
Przegląd TomistycznyThe purpose of this article is to present an original interpretation, first proposed by Richard Kilvington (ca. 1302--1361), of the theories of Aristotle and Averroes on hylomorphism and natural processes such as mixing and qualitative changes.
E. Jung
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