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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 163-190, March 2026.Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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The Cosmos as a World City: A Hylomorphic Foundation for Civic Renewal
ReligionsThis paper contends that the West’s civic crisis is, at root, a cosmological crisis: civic renewal requires metaphysical repair. It is insufficient to endorse virtue ethics and demand civic virtues without a deeper account of reality that can sustain ...
William M. R. Simpson
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Leibniz on Corporeal Substance [PDF]
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2016 As an idealist, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz could not recognize anything corporeal as substantial. However, under the influence of Cartesian terminology, he devoted considerable effort to analysing the corporeal world, while not recognizing its real ...
Peeter Müürsepp
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, Volume 14, Issue 27, October 20, 2025.Bacterial cellulose has undergone a transformative journey from early applications to its role in advanced regenerative medicine. The review has a pedagogical ambition, offering clear pathways for future research and clinical adoption. Harmonizing regulatory standards and conducting larger, well‐designed clinical trials with standardized endpoints will
Thomas Meslier +3 more
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Quantum Powers and Primitive Ontology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2025.ABSTRACT This article surveys recent work on primitive ontology (PO) approaches to quantum mechanics, focusing on proposals that seek to integrate this approach with the metaphysics of causal powers. PO approaches aim to provide a clear metaphysical picture in which the world consists of local entities such as particles, matter density fields or ...
William M. R. Simpson
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Aristotle’s Hylomorphism: The Causal-Explanatory Model
Metaphysics, 2018 There are several innocuous or trivial ways in which to explicate Aristotle’s hylomorphism. For example: objects (or kinds of object) are characterisable in terms of matter and form; or analysable into matter and form; or understood on the basis of ...
Michail Peramatzis
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Aristotle's Theoria in Contemplative Education
Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 439-459, June 2025.Abstract This essay analyzes Pierre Hadot's reading of Aristotelian theoria in order to evaluate theoria's relevancy for the contemporary field of Contemplative Education. It emphasizes the limited engagement with theoria against a backdrop of heightened attention to mindfulness‐based practices. The essay critiques the conflation of Plato and Aristotle'
Tomas de Rezende Rocha
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Daring to doubt! Shaftesbury, doubt, and polite conversation
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 192-210, June 2025.Abstract Shaftesbury thought that dogmatism was an epistemic vice that violated the norms of good inquiry by inhibiting the proper exercise of reason. One way that Shaftesbury attempted to defend against dogmatic thought and culture was to recommend that society followed the norms of what he called “polite conversation.” This notion has received a fair
Sean Maroney
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Scientia et Fides, 2017 This article, the first of a two-part essay, presents an account of Aristotelian hylomorphic animalism that engages with recent work on neuroscience and philosophy of mind.
Daniel D. De Haan
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 292-310, April 2025.Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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