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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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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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2023
Abstract Aristotle’s hylomorphism, which concerns the relationship between form and matter, is paralleled in many ways by the Stoic theory of the relationship between peculiar quality and matter. This is particularly clear in the theory developed by the Stoic Mnesarchus in the second century bce, though the comparison with Aristotle is ...
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Abstract Aristotle’s hylomorphism, which concerns the relationship between form and matter, is paralleled in many ways by the Stoic theory of the relationship between peculiar quality and matter. This is particularly clear in the theory developed by the Stoic Mnesarchus in the second century bce, though the comparison with Aristotle is ...
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Hylomorphism and Functionalism
1995Abstract Myles Burnyeat, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University, disputes functionalist interpretations of Aristotle. Moreover, he contends that a correct understanding of Aristotle’s philosophy of mind leads to the realization that the only thing to do with it is to reject it.
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Hylomorphism and the Incarnation
2020Abstract This chapter offers a metaphysical account of the incarnation that starts from substantive assumptions about the nature of natures and about the metaphysics of the Trinity and develops in light of these a story about the relations among the elements involved in the incarnation.
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The Significance of Hylomorphism
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2019Hylomorphism is a word for Aristotle’s belief that matter and form constitute a unity in natural things. Engaging with the work of Rémi Brague on the cosmos, I propose hylomorphism as central to the contemporary philosophy of nature that Brague seeks. Between the pre-philosophical standpoint and philosophy, there is an intermediate cognitive stage of ...
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