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Author: Devin Henry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108475574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.
Author: David Bostock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-02-16
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0199286868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpace, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.
Author: Isaac Husik
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Eli Kalderon
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0191027731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he argues that a puzzle about perception at a distance is behind Empedocles' theory of vision. Empedocles conceives of perception as a mode of material assimilation, but this raises a puzzle about color vision, since color vision seems to present colors that inhere in distant objects. But if the colors inhere in distant objects how can they be taken in by the organ of sight and so be palpable to sense? Aristotle purports to resolve this puzzle in his definition of perception as the assimilation of sensible form without the matter of the perceived particular. Aristotle explicitly criticizes Empedocles, though he is keen to retain the idea that perception is a mode of assimilation, if not a material mode. Aristotle's notorious definition has long puzzled commentators. Kalderon shows how, read in light of Empedoclean puzzlement about the sensory presentation of remote objects, Aristotle's definition of perception can be better understood. Moreover, when so read, the resulting conception of perception is both attractive and defensible.
Author: Frank A. Lewis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-03-06
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780631200925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores different applications of Aristotle's hypothesis on the components of form, matter and pyschological states.
Author: Benjamin Morison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-02-07
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0199247919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to explain as carefully as possible Aristotle's account of place given in the Physics, Book IV, Chs. 1-5. Also aims to rehabilitate it as a piece of philosophy, after many centuries of its being dismissed as inadequate. Discusses the importance of the concept of place to natural philosophy, including the role of so-called 'natural' places in the explanation of the natural motion of the elements.
Author: Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780801476358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.
Author: Jeremy Kirby
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1441144544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle maintains that biological organisms are compounds of matter and form and that compounds that have the same form are individuated by their matter. According to Aristotle, an object that undergoes change is an object that undergoes a change in form, i.e. form is imposed upon something material in nature. Aristotle therefore identifies organisms according to their matter and essential forms, forms that are arguably essential to an object's existence. Jeremy Kirby addresses a difficulty in Aristotle's metaphysics, namely the possibility that two organisms of the same species might share the same matter. If they share the same form, as Aristotle seems to suggest, then they seem to share that which they cannot, their identity. By taking into account Aristotle's views on the soul, its relation to living matter, and his rejection of the possibility of resurrection, Kirby reconstructs an answer to this problem and shows how Aristotle relies on some of the central themes in his system in order to resist this unwelcome result that his metaphysics might suggest.
Author: Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0191085308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.
Author: Michael Vernon Wedin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0199253080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. Two sources for these views are Categories and the central books of Metaphysics. This text argues that he is engaged in different projects in these books.
