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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hylomorphism"”.
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The unity of action: reviving a neo-Aristotelian case for hylomorphism
In recent decades, a number of philosophers have sought to explain the nature of human action using Aristotle’s theory of material constitution. According to these neo-Aristotelian accounts, material objects serve as the paradigm cases for analysing the concept of action. As composites of matter …
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Personal identity and persistence over time : the hybrid view with regard to hylomorphism
This thesis is concerned with the concept of personal identity. It aims to identify a simple formulation of what it is for a person x at time t1 to be the same as person y at time t2. In pursuit of this aim, it addresses several metaphysical questions: What are we? Do we have a persistent identity? …
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Animals now and then.
… be resurrected). I do this by arguing that given hylomorphism, animals can become immaterial, and that this is less an affront to intuition and mereology than it might seem. Second, I defend a hylomorphic variety of animalism from the objection that if it is true, we are not the primary thinkers …
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Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity
… of Logic, teleology is understood as akin to hylomorphism. Together, these discussions centre the question: is it possible to determine a normative position or political ontology without an appeal to ends [telos]? This question continues to reverberate through the close of the thesis, which …
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
… God, the theory of substance and the theory of hylomorphism. After the exhibition of all these divergent stances and different views of the nature and the last fate of our astonishing universe, the result that we do come out with is that there is no opposition between philosophy and religion, as …
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Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and its Union with the Body
… soul and body. </p> <p>The second argument for hylomorphism in Summa Theologiae I.76.1 involves Aquinas’ rejection of three competing accounts of the relationship between intellect and body, namely, the Platonist, Averroist, and Moved-Mover accounts. While Aquinas’ argument may initially appear …
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Immaterialist solutions to puzzles in personal ontology
What are we? Despite much discussion in historical and contemporary philosophy, we have not yet settled on an answer. A satisfactory personal ontology, an account of our metaphysical nature, will be informed by issues in the metaphysics of material objects. In the dissertation, I target two …
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What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
This thesis contributes to the development of a ‘neo-Aristotelian’ ontology of powers that accommodates quantum phenomena. It offers a number of philosophical objections to ‘Super-Humean’ metaphysics, and constructs a sequence of models that aim to improve upon it, using the metaphysical toolbox …