Dear all, On Wednesday 5th June Simon Evnine from the University of Miami will give a talk entitled "Varieties of Hylomorphism" (abstract below).
We will meet at 5:30 in the Faculty Board Room. I hope to see many of you there. All the best, Lukas --------------------------------------------------------------------- Varieties of Hylomorphism Aristotle's hylomorphism has two distinctive elements. a) It takes there to be entities, forms, which in entering into combination with matter result in hylomorphically complex entities. And, on the basis of these forms, b) it envisages an account of hylomorphically complex entities that reveals tight interconnections between their essences, their origins, and their functions. Science has rendered Aristotle's view untenable. I discuss two contemporary varieties of hylomorphism. Kit Fine has developed a view that picks up on the realist element in Aristotle but lets go a satisfactory account of the relations between essence, origin, and function. I propose an alternative that I call non-realist hylomorphism. This view attempts to keep a unified account of essence, origin, and function but without positing anything to play the role of forms.
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