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Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes
Author: Devin Henry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-05
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108475574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.
A Recent View of Matter and Form in Aristotle
Form without Matter
Author: Mark Eli Kalderon
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0191027731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mark 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.
Space, Time, Matter, and Form
Author: David Bostock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-02-16
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0199286868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Space, 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.
Form, Matter, and Mixture in Aristotle
Author: Frank A. Lewis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-03-06
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780631200925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores different applications of Aristotle's hypothesis on the components of form, matter and pyschological states.
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Author: Jeremy Kirby
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1441101993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aristotle 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.
Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Author: Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780801430039
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aristotle responds in his metaphysics to a problem with Platonic theory: when a property belongs to a subject, is the property a feature of the subject or does it determine the nature of the subject? Furthermore, can the nature of a subject "belong to" the subject?
Aristotle on Substance
Author: Mary Louise Gill
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0691222215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
Substance and Predication in Aristotle
Author: Frank A. Lewis
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521391597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.
