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THE GENERAL RESURRECTION AND EARLY MODERN NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY
Zygon, 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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Sententiae, 2023 Review of Thompson, J. W. (2022). The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Andrii Shymanovych
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Aristotle on unity in Metaphysics Z.12 and H.6
Ratio, 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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Kant’s Dynamic Hylomorphism in Logic
Con-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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Structure, essence and existence in chemistry
Ratio, 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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Taking Abstract Artifacts Seriously—The Functioning and Malfunctioning of Fictional Characters
Philosophies, 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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Beyond the Bodily View and Psychological View of Human Beings: Human Beings are Rational Animals [PDF]
Journal 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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Neuroscientific findings in the light of Aquinas' understanding of the human being
Scientia et Fides, 2017 Neuroscience is one of the most propulsive of all sciences and very often, directly or not, it tries to answer the question: What is man? However, neuroscientific research does not acknowledge the concept of man as a unity of body and soul.
Saša Horvat
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Explaining the Unity of Objects, Including Human Beings, Based on Aquins’s Hylomorphism; the First Interpretation: Properties as Powers [PDF]
حکمت 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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The consequences of Gilbert Simondon's Theory of Individuation for Politics [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2023 The individual has been one of the contentious issues in the different knowledge. This has formed certain knowledge that its developments have had some important effects on other knowledge including politics.
Mohammad-Reza Tajik +2 more
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