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Metaphysica, 2012
Aristotle’s theory of physical objects, hylomorphism, has resurfaced in contemporary metaphysics. In its current version, hylomorphism is proposed as a general theory of mereology, its purview extending beyond material objects to chemical composites, events, and non-physical mathematical, linguistic, and musical objects. While I agree that hylomorphism
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Aristotle’s theory of physical objects, hylomorphism, has resurfaced in contemporary metaphysics. In its current version, hylomorphism is proposed as a general theory of mereology, its purview extending beyond material objects to chemical composites, events, and non-physical mathematical, linguistic, and musical objects. While I agree that hylomorphism
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Inhering hylomorphic modes or hylomorphic modes of inherence?
Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter, 2023Abstract I analyze the Hylomorphism Argument in the anonymous Destructions of the Modes of Signifying (DMS), which attempts to reduce the Modist Inherence Thesis (MIT) to absurdity. I note that the Hylomorphism Argument rests on a misunderstanding of MIT, which posits distinct hylomorphic ways that modes inhere, rather than distinct ...
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2021
Abstract The chapter provides a discussion of hylomorphism, a doctrine associated with Aristotle and his medieval followers according to which objects are compounds of matter and form. Two strands of contemporary hylomorphism are examined, one of which invokes a kind of downward causation.
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Abstract The chapter provides a discussion of hylomorphism, a doctrine associated with Aristotle and his medieval followers according to which objects are compounds of matter and form. Two strands of contemporary hylomorphism are examined, one of which invokes a kind of downward causation.
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Hylomorphism: a Critical Analysis
Acta Analytica, 2019In this essay, I examine those versions of hylomorphism that attribute to form a very strong explicative role. According to them, form is both the source of new emergent powers and expression of the finalist structure of organisms. The main aim of this essay is to show that these two aspects do not holdup because the form only exercises a structural ...
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Hylomorphism and substantial gradualism
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2015Hylomorphism, the old traditional view according to which substances are constituted by the combination of form and matter, has recently undergone a renaissance. This essay focuses on material substance, and suggests that in this case the hylomorphic constitution calls for a notion of form which should be understood also as energy, or the exercise of a
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2018
Aristotle famously held that objects are comprised of matter and form. That is the central doctrine of hylomorphism (sometimes rendered “hylemorphism”—hyle, matter; morphe, form), and the view has become a live topic of inquiry today. Contemporary proponents of the doctrine include Jeffrey Brower, Kit Fine, David Hershenov, Mark Johnston, Kathrin ...
Andrew Bailey, Shane Maxwell Wilkins
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Aristotle famously held that objects are comprised of matter and form. That is the central doctrine of hylomorphism (sometimes rendered “hylemorphism”—hyle, matter; morphe, form), and the view has become a live topic of inquiry today. Contemporary proponents of the doctrine include Jeffrey Brower, Kit Fine, David Hershenov, Mark Johnston, Kathrin ...
Andrew Bailey, Shane Maxwell Wilkins
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The Modern Schoolman, 2012
Aquinas’s Fifth Way is usually taken to be an adumbration of Paley-like design arguments. Paley-like design arguments have fallen on hard times over the past few centuries, and most contemporary defenders of design arguments in support of theism favor some version of the fine-tuning argument.
Kronen, John D., Menssen, Sandra L.
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Aquinas’s Fifth Way is usually taken to be an adumbration of Paley-like design arguments. Paley-like design arguments have fallen on hard times over the past few centuries, and most contemporary defenders of design arguments in support of theism favor some version of the fine-tuning argument.
Kronen, John D., Menssen, Sandra L.
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Ancient Philosophy Today, 2019
Neo-Aristotelian hylomorphism has struggled to arrive at anything approaching a consensus regarding the notion of form. Contending that no ‘right-minded modern’ could embrace anything akin to Aristotle's own preferred conception of a form as a causally efficacious entity capable of unifying material elements into a substantial whole, Fine (1994), for ...
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Neo-Aristotelian hylomorphism has struggled to arrive at anything approaching a consensus regarding the notion of form. Contending that no ‘right-minded modern’ could embrace anything akin to Aristotle's own preferred conception of a form as a causally efficacious entity capable of unifying material elements into a substantial whole, Fine (1994), for ...
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2012
For later medieval philosophers, writing under the infl uence of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics, the human soul plays two quite diff erent roles, serving as both a substantial form and a mind. To ask the natural question of why we need a soul at all—why we might not instead simply be a body, a material thing—therefore requires ...
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For later medieval philosophers, writing under the infl uence of Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysics, the human soul plays two quite diff erent roles, serving as both a substantial form and a mind. To ask the natural question of why we need a soul at all—why we might not instead simply be a body, a material thing—therefore requires ...
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