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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Roots of Logical Hylomorphism [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 The purpose of this paper is four-fold. Firstly, various explications of the logical hylomorphism will be sketched. Secondly, I propose to revisit certain interpretations of Aristotle’s syllogistic. I attempt to answer the question why Aristotle was not the founder of logical hylomorphism. Thirdly, I try to qualify the logical hylomorphism of Alexander
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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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Hylomorphism Extended: Dynamical Forms and Minds
Philosophies, 2018 Physical objects are compounds of matter and form, as stated by Aristotle in his hylomorphism theory. The concept of “form„ in this theory refers to physical structures or organizational structures.
Włodzisław Duch
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