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THE GENERAL RESURRECTION AND EARLY MODERN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY

open access: yesZygon, 2023
Noting that the doctrine of the general resurrection attracted renewed attention after the Reformation, and after the atomist revival led to the displacement of traditional hylomorphism by alternative matter theories, this article surveys the ways in ...
John Henry
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Taking Abstract Artifacts Seriously—The Functioning and Malfunctioning of Fictional Characters

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
This paper presents and discusses Simon Evnine’s hylomorphic account of fictional characters and proposes some amendments to it with the aim of explaining the functioning of fictional characters. The paper does so by relying on a case study, viz.
Enrico Terrone
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Aristotle on unity in Metaphysics Z.12 and H.6

open access: yesRatio, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 243-259, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Aristotle's inquiry into the definitional question “what is substance?” in the central books of the Metaphysics is constrained by the unity requirement. Roughly, a particular hylomorphic compound substance, such as this human, ought to be a unified whole and not just a heap of material parts and form.
Michail Peramatzis
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Explaining the Unity of Objects, Including Human Beings, Based on Aquins’s Hylomorphism; the First Interpretation: Properties as Powers [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2019
Relying on the teachings of Aquinas, Oderberg as one of the analytic hylomorphists ascribes the unity of an object to form. His view is that if form is responcible for unity, it should be a simple entity not a composite one.
Mehdi Amiriyan
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Structure, essence and existence in chemistry

open access: yesRatio, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 274-288, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Philosophers have often debated the truth of microstructural essentialism about chemical substances: whether or not the structure of a chemical substance at the molecular scale is what makes it the substance it is. Oddly they have tended to pursue this debate without identifying what a structure is, and with some confusion and about what a ...
Robin Findlay Hendry
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Kant’s Dynamic Hylomorphism in Logic

open access: yesCon-textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, 2016
The aim of this paper is to provide a dynamic interpretation of Kant’s logical hylomorphism. Firstly, various types of the logical hylomorphism will be illustrated. Secondly, I propose to reevaluate Kant’s constitutivity thesis about logic.
Elena Dragalina-Chernaya
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Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
We are... So, to reframe the inquiry: who are we on a metaphysical level? Which aspects of ourselves are the most universally representative of who we are? How do we fare in the face of the passage of time?
Khanh Trinh
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2023 HRS/APHRS/LAHRS guideline on cardiac physiologic pacing for the avoidance and mitigation of heart failure

open access: yesJournal of Arrhythmia, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 681-756, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Cardiac physiologic pacing (CPP), encompassing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and conduction system pacing (CSP), has emerged as a pacing therapy strategy that may mitigate or prevent the development of heart failure (HF) in patients with ventricular dyssynchrony or pacing‐induced cardiomyopathy.
Mina K. Chung   +70 more
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Normativity and the Critical Functions of Genealogy: The Case of Modern Science1

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 682-707, October 2023., 2023
Abstract The first part of this article offers some general remarks about genealogical approaches to history, focusing on historical narratives that stress the role played by theological considerations in the formation of aspects of secular modernity. A central question is whether such genealogies can serve to critique the present without drawing upon ...
Peter Harrison
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Christianity’s eschatological vision at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment. Thompson, J. W. (2022). The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

open access: yesSententiae, 2023
Review of Thompson, J. W. (2022). The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Andrii Shymanovych
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