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Form and Matter
Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics

David S. Oderberg (Edited by)

9780631213895, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 1999

132 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 0.8 cm, 0.163 kg

Form and Matter is a collection of six papers by leading philosophers on topics in contemporary metaphysics looked at from an Aristotelian perspective. Topics covered include substance, material constitution, the metaphysics of mind, the nature of mixture,and the analysis of what it is to be a living thing.

Introduction.

1. Form Without Matter (E.J. Lowe).

2. Farewell to Substance: A Differentiated Leave-Taking (Peter M. Simons).

3. A Return to Form in the Philosophy of Mind (John Haldane).

4. Mixing Matters (Kit Fine).

5. On the Unity of Compound Things: Living and Non-Living (Joshua Hoffman & Gary S. Rosenkrantz).

6. Sameness Without Identity: An Aristotelian Solution to the Problem of Material Constitution (Michael C. Rea).

Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
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