Marilù Papandreou

Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Shows historians of philosophy that Aristotle provides an elaborate account of artefacts from which we can extrapolate a new solution to the problem of artefacts' substantiality. The reconstruction of such an account also places Aristotle into communication with contemporary metaphysical debates on ordinary objects"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781009340502
• ISBN-10: 1009340506
• Artikelnr.: 68540471

Autorenporträt

Marilù Papandreou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The platonic heritage
2. Using artefacts against Plato
3. Aristotle's building blocks in the Physics
4. Artefacts as hylomorphic compounds
5. Forms of artefacts as inert and intermittent
6. The relation between matter and form in artefacts
7. The relation between parts and whole in artefacts
8. The physics and metaphysics of artefacts
Conclusions.