Form, Matter, Substance

Koslicki, Kathrin

Oxford University Press（2018/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780198823803
• DDC分類 117

Full Description

In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense 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 with alternative 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 hold between a matter-form compound, its matter and its form. Koslicki offers detailed answers these questions surrounding a hylomorphic 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 due to their high degree of unity.

Contents

Introduction
Part I: A Hylomorphic Analysis of Concrete Particular Objects
1: Concrete Particular Objects
2: Matter
3: Form
4: Hylomorphic Relations
Part II: Substance
5: Ontological Dependence
6: Independence Criteria of Substancehood
7: Unity
8: Artifacts
Conclusion