Form, matter, substance

by Koslicki, Kathrin

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Full title :Form, matter, substance / Kathrin Koslicki.

Summary

In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defence 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 withalternative 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 holdbetween a matter-form compound, its matter and its form. Koslicki offers detailed answers to the questions surrounding this 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, despite their metaphysical complexity, due to their high degree of unity.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780192557087, 0192557084, 9780191862588, 0191862584
oclc:on1049974758
LC Classification:BD648
Dewey Decimal:117

Concrete particular objects -- Matter -- Form -- Hylomorphic relations -- Ontological dependence -- Independence criteria of substancehood -- Unity -- Artifacts.