2014
DOI: 10.11612/resphil.2014.91.2.1
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Staunch vs. Faint-hearted Hylomorphism: Toward an Aristotelian Account of Composition

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“…My new metaphysical model combines the primitive ontology of Bohmian mechanics put forward by Goldstein et al ( 2005a , b ) with a contemporary adaptation of Aristotle’s hylomorphic theory of substances proposed by Koons ( 2018 , 2014 ), to produce a powerist account of the temporal development of the primitive distribution of matter. The core of my model, which I shall call Cosmic Hylomorphism , may be laid out in four axioms: There are ‘Power-Atoms’, which exercise causal powers to change their velocities in response to their spatial configuration.…”
Section: Cosmic Hylomorphism Proposedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…My new metaphysical model combines the primitive ontology of Bohmian mechanics put forward by Goldstein et al ( 2005a , b ) with a contemporary adaptation of Aristotle’s hylomorphic theory of substances proposed by Koons ( 2018 , 2014 ), to produce a powerist account of the temporal development of the primitive distribution of matter. The core of my model, which I shall call Cosmic Hylomorphism , may be laid out in four axioms: There are ‘Power-Atoms’, which exercise causal powers to change their velocities in response to their spatial configuration.…”
Section: Cosmic Hylomorphism Proposedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The non-homonymous parts of an organism, such as its molecules, atoms, and sub-atomic particles, are only potential or virtual parts: they exist only as potential products of division or death, and as metaphysically derivative, localized aspects of the powers and potentialities of the whole substance. The powers and potentialities of these virtual parts are wholly grounded in the substantial organism as a whole (see Koons 2014).…”
Section: Organisms As Paradigm Substancesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, hylomorphism is not coextensive with dispositionalism, for it usually entails the defense of a unifying and essential ground of a thing's dispositional properties: substantial form. Furthermore, contemporary hylomorphism is a variety show, ranging between "staunch" and "faint-hearted" versions (Koons 2014). The "fainthearted" versions selectively or completely deny the following: a power ontology, a sparse view of both fundamental entities and powers, and the existence of fundamental essences and 32 See Groff and Greco 2013, p. 3; see also French 2014, p. 248ff. properties.…”
Section: Powers Dispositions and The New Aristotelianismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…35 Therefore, this problem must be addressed first in natural philosophy. Consequently, and second, the solution to the Eleatic paradox governs the solution to 33 In particular, the hylomorphist must address concerns of dispositional monism (Bird 2010) or other versions of hylomorphism; for such replies, see Oderberg 2011, and Koons 2014. 34 Koons 2018a helpfully discusses the last three issues.…”
Section: Motivating Hylomorphismmentioning
confidence: 99%