The continued significant impacts of disasters from natural hazards raise questions
regarding the epistemic commensurability of measures recommended to achieve substantial …

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how hylomorphism can be
used to solve mind-body problems--persistent problems understanding how thought, feeling …

In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the
Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of …

Simon J. Evnine explores the view (which he calls amorphic hylomorphism) that some
objects have matter from which they are distinct but that this distinctness is not due to the …

Many of the concepts analysed by philosophers have their origin in ordinary–or at least extra-
philosophical–language. Perception, knowledge, causation, and mind are examples. But the …

A staunch hylomorphism involves a commitment to a sparse theory of universals and a
sparse theory of composite material objects, as well as to an ontology of fundamental causal …

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire
and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The …

Dispositionalism is the view that causal powers are among the irreducible properties of
nature. It has long been among the core competing positions in the metaphysics of laws, but …

Summary This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an
account of substances in terms of their'matter'and'form', adapting and applying it to the …

This article explains the problems with Alan Shewmon's critique of brain death as a valid
sign of human death, beginning with a critical examination of his analogy between brain …