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Hylomorphism: what’s not to like?

open access: yesSynthÈse, 2018
The paper comprises an attempt on the part of the author to understand what hylomorphism is, both in its original Aristotelian guise, and in recent work by philosophers who defend what they call hylomorphism. Two species or strands of hylomorphism are identified and discussed.
John Heil, Heil John
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Hylomorphism: a Critical Analysis

open access: yesActa Analytica, 2019
In 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 ...
Antonella Corradini
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Hylomorphism and substantial gradualism

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2015
Hylomorphism, 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
DE ANNA, Gabriele
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Contemporary Hylomorphism

open access: yes, 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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Platonic Hylomorphism

Rhizomata, 2022
Abstract Hylomorphism is almost universally claimed to be a staple doctrine of Aristotle. In this paper, I discuss a wide range of texts from the dialogues of Plato that straightforwardly display hylomorphism. Both Plato and Aristotle rest their cognitive realism on their hylomorphism.
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Hylomorphism and Design [PDF]

open access: yesThe 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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