Form, Matter, Substance 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192557092
• ISBN-13: 9780192557094
• Author: Kathrin Koslicki

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.

Table contents:

Part I A Hylomorphic Analysis of Concrete Particular Objects

1 Concrete Particular Objects

2 Matter

3 Form

4 Hylomorphic Relations

Part II Substance

5 Ontological Dependence

6 Independence Criteria of Substancehood

7 Unity

8 ArtifactsGe

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