Form and Matter
Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
132 pages
978-0-631-21389-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21389-5 (9780631213895)
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Person
David S. Oderberg is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading. Author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time (1993); co-editor of Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (1997).
Content
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.
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.