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2018
This chapter takes up the question of how hylomorphists should conceive of the relations between a matter–form compound, its matter, and its form. It responds to the challenge issued to hylomorphists by the Grounding Problem, which asks what (if anything) explains the apparent differences between an object and its matter.
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This chapter takes up the question of how hylomorphists should conceive of the relations between a matter–form compound, its matter, and its form. It responds to the challenge issued to hylomorphists by the Grounding Problem, which asks what (if anything) explains the apparent differences between an object and its matter.
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Abstract Physicalists and dualists share a common understanding of the natural world: the physical universe, they say, is a vast sea of matter and energy that can be in principle described by our best physics. Both are committed to denying that physical materials can combine to form emergent individuals—composite individuals with ...
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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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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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Forms and Compounds in Koslicki’s Mereological Hylomorphism
Philosophia, 2023G. Sciacca
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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2023
Marie I. George
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Marie I. George
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Not just talk: understanding hylomorphism
Asian Journal of PhilosophyF. Ceravolo
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