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Title The history of hylomorphism : from Aristotle to Descartes / edited by David Charles
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Contents An introduction to the history of hylomorphism : from Aristotle to Descartes / David Charles -- Epicurean materialism / Alexander Bown -- Stoics and hylomorphism / Brad Inwood -- The octopoid soul : Stoic responses to Aristotle's soul-body hylomorphism / Christof Rapp -- Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Stoics : blending, forms, and the upwards story / Reier Helle -- Galen on the form and substance of the soul / Patricia Marechal -- Alexander of Aphrodisias' emergentism : hylomorphism perfected / Victor Caston -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on the ancient debate on hylomorphism and the development of intellect / Frans A.J. de Haas -- Plotinus on hylomorphic forms / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- Strengths of embodiment in neoplatonism / Pauliina Remes -- Philoponus and Alexander in historical context on relations between matter and form inside and outside philosophy of mind / Richard Sorabji -- Hylomorphism in neoplatonic commentaries on Aristotle? Perception in Philoponus and pseudo-simplicius / Miira Tuominen -- Natural, artificial, and organic forms in Avicenna / Peter Adamson -- Averroes, intellect, and liberal hylomorphism / Stephen R. Ogden -- Hoc Aliquid : Aquinas's soul is this something / Christopher Shields -- Suárez' compositional account of substance / Dominik Perler -- Descartes' mind-body holism and the primacy of experience / Lilli Alanen
Summary "Aristotle hylomorphic account of objects in terms of their matter and their form has exercised a major influence on western philosophy. This collection of essays considers aspects of the first two thousand years of the history of hylomorphism, starting with Aristotle’s immediate successors and ending with Descartes. Throughout that period, Aristotle’s own views were discussed in great detail, fully tested and modified. Some philosophers saw serious difficulties or major gaps in his theory. Others developed their own accounts, or reformulated his, in an attempt to address them. In this collection, there are individual essays by specialists on some of these philosophers, including Epicurus, certain Stoic writers, Alexander, Galen, Plotinus, Philoponus, Avicenna, Averroes, Aquinas and Suarez. Taken as a whole, the collection addresses the question ‘to what extent was Aristotle’s own theory transformed during this period?’ In providing the resources for an overview of these developments, it also points to factors that produced some of our current ideas, preoccupations and problems, such as the mind-body problem as formulated by Descartes"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on December 5, 2024)
Subject Hylomorphism -- History
Hylomorphism.
PHILOSOPHY.
Metaphysics.
Mind & Body.
Hylomorphism
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Charles, David (David Owain Maurice), editor.
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