This realm, he maintained, makes particular things intelligible by accounting for their common natures: a thing is a horse, for example, by virtue of the fact that it shares in, or imitates, the Form of “Horse.” In a lost work, On Ideas, Aristotle maintains that the arguments of ...
For example, he considers actions (p. 68), events (p. 72), musical works (p. 68), bodies of law (p. 72), word tokens and types (p. 68), tropes and universals (p. 68), sets (p. 73), propositions (p. 74), etc. Indeed, bringing the theory of material objects closer to ...
Nevertheless, the example of the bronze statue does have the virtue of illustrating one of the chief advantages of hylomorphism as a philosophy of the human person. Although we can talk about the bronze and the shape of the statue, respectively, it still seems correct to say that the statue...
These objections center on the idea of "form"; it is objected, for example, that the notion of form is vague, tries to do too much, is self-contradictory, or is opposed by science. Objections to the combination of phenomenology and metaphysics are also raised. In later chapters I show ...
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 matter and form. Serious problems arise wh...
In a deeply rich example, Simondon, contra Aristotle, mobilises the process of mould-making as an exemplar of the modulated ensemble of forces that prefigure any formations of matter through form. I analyse Simondon's paradigmatic criticism while at the same time carving out the potential ...