Making Objects and Events: A Hylomorphic Theory of Artifacts, Actions, and Organisms

by Simon J. Evnine

Book Overview

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 existence of anything like a form. He draws on Aristotle's insight that such objects must be understood in terms of an account that links what they are essentially with how they come to exist and what their functions are (the coincidence of formal, final, and efficient causes)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198858035
• ISBN13: 9780198858034
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"