Form, Matter, Substance
«Koslicki's book is engaging and thought-provoking. I highly recommend it to anyone working in metaphysics.»
Daniel Z. Korman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198823803
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Koslicki's book is engaging and thought-provoking. I highly recommend it to anyone working in metaphysics.»
Daniel Z. Korman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews