| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 0.1 Artefacts in the Contemporary Debate -- 0.2 Artefacts in Aristotle: Some Preliminary Observations -- 0.3 Aristotelian Scholarship: The Status Quaestionis -- 0.4 A Piecemeal Approach -- 0.5 Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts -- Chapter 1 The Platonic Heritage -- 1.1 Plato's Metaphysics of Artefacts -- 1.1.1 Plato's Ideas of Artefacts in the Cratylus and Republic X -- 1.1.2 The Doubts of the Young Socrates in the Parmenides |
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1.1.3 Divine Craftsmanship in the Timaeus -- 1.2 Building on Plato's Theoretical Shortcomings -- 1.2.1 Final Causation -- 1.2.2 Models, Likenesses and the Notion of Imitation -- 1.3 Platonic Intuitions as the Source of Aristotle's Account of Artefacts -- 1.3.1 Ideas and Forms -- 1.3.2 Axiology and Metaphysics -- 1.3.3 Carving Nature at the Joints -- 1.3.4 Parts and Whole -- Chapter 2 Using Artefacts against Plato -- 2.1 The Arguments -- 2.1.1 Against the Arguments from the Sciences -- 2.1.2 The Threat of Aporia -- 2.1.3 The Logical or Semantic Argument -- 2.1.4 Aristotle's Argument from Evidence |
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2.2 The Notion of Separation -- 2.3 Aristotle's Dialectical Use of Artefacts -- Chapter 3 Aristotle's Building Blocks in the Physics -- 3.1 The Theory of the Four Causes and the Art Analogy -- 3.2 The Salient Difference between Artefacts and Natural Beings -- 3.2.1 The Definition of Nature in Phys. 2.1 -- 3.2.2 Daedalus' Statues, Machines, the Olive Tree and the Swallow's Nest -- 3.3 Artefacts Will Typically Come-to-Be by Art -- 3.3.1 Art as Principle -- 3.3.2 Other Dependent Objects46 -- 3.4 Some Artefacts Will Only Come-to-Be by Art and Some Natural Beings Will Also Come-to-Be by Art |
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3.4.1 Inadvertently Made Objects -- 3.4.2 The Case of Artificial Mixtures -- Chapter 4 Artefacts as Hylomorphic Compounds -- 4.1 Artefacts Undergo Unqualified Coming-to-Be -- 4.1.1 Intrinsic Change in the Matter -- 4.1.2 Per Se Unities -- 4.1.3 Nature-Facts and Found-Objects: The Paperweight and the Strigil -- 4.2 It's Not Bronze, It's a Brazen Statue -- 4.2.1 The Eikeininon Rule -- 4.2.2 Actuality-Inducing Action as the Relevant Change in Matter -- 4.3 Synonymy Principle -- 4.3.1 The Synonymy Principle Applied to Artefacts |
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4.3.2 The Form in the Mind of the Artisan as the Form of the Object in Thought and as in Actuality -- 4.3.3 The Form in the Object in Potentiality: The Artisans' Tools -- 4.4 Neither Just Matter nor Accidental Beings -- Chapter 5 Forms of Artefacts as Inert and Intermittent -- 5.1 Art as the Form in the Mind of the Artisan -- 5.1.1 Art as Efficient Cause of Qualified Coming-to-Be -- 5.1.2 Art as Efficient Cause of Unqualified Coming-to-Be -- 5.2 Against Transmission Theory: How the Form in the Object Is Not an Efficient Cause Explained through Biology |
| Summary |
"Shows historians of philosophy that Aristotle provides an elaborate account of artefacts from which we can extrapolate a new solution to the problem of artefacts' substantiality. The reconstruction of such an account also places Aristotle into communication with contemporary metaphysical debates on ordinary objects"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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| SUBJECT |
Aristotle fast |
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Substance (Philosophy)
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Ontology.
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Antiquities -- Philosophy
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Object (Philosophy)
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ontology (metaphysics)
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Object (Philosophy)
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Ontology
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Substance (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023042765 |
| ISBN |
9781009340557 |
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1009340557 |
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9781009340526 |
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1009340522 |
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