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"In Form, matter, substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of matter (hule) and form (morphe or eidos) and a living organism is not exhausted by the body, cells, organs, tissue and...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2018 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"In Form, matter, substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of matter (hule) and form (morphe or eidos) and a living organism is not exhausted by the body, cells, organs, tissue and the like that compose it. Koslicki argues that a hylomorphic analysis of concrete particular objects is well equipped to compete with alternative approaches when measured against a wide range of criteria of success. However, a plausible application of the doctrine of hylomorphism to the special case of concrete particular objects hinges on how hylomorphists conceive of the matter composing a concrete particular object, its form, and the hylomorphic relations which hold between a matter-form compound, its matter and its form. Koslicki offers detailed answers these questions surrounding a hylomorphic approach to the metaphysics of concrete particular objects. As a result, matter-form compounds emerge as occupying the privileged ontological status traditionally associated with substances due to their high degree of unity"--Publisher's website |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 273 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-264) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780198880684 0198880685 9780198823803 0198823800 |
| Index Number: | BD648 |
| CLC: | B021 |
| Call Number: | B021/K864 |
| Contents: | Concrete particular objects -- Matter -- Form -- Hylomorphic relations -- Ontological dependence -- Independence criteria of substancehood -- Unity -- Artifacts. |