Author : Errol G. Katayama
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1999-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791443170
Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.
Author : Simon J. Evnine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191085251
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). Artifacts are the most prominent kind of objects where these three features coincide, and Evnine develops a detailed account of the existence and identity conditions of artifacts, and the origins of their functions, in terms of how they come into existence. This process is, in general terms, that they are made out of their initial matter by an agent acting with the intention to make an object of the given kind. Evnine extends the account to organisms, where evolution accomplishes what is effected by intentional making in the case of artifacts, and to actions, which are seen as artifactual events.
Author : Eric Margolis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199250987
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen
Author : Errol G. Katayama
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438408463
Previous commentators on the Metaphysics have attributed to Aristotle the belief that all living beings are substances. This book challenges the prevailing view by addressing the question of whether, according to Aristotle, artifacts are substances. By arguing that the two criteria of substantiality are "eternity" and "actuality" (thereby excluding some organisms), and by covering Aristotle's theory of art and nature as well as his embryology, Aristotle on Artifacts offers a novel way of dealing with a number of highly controversial issues and variety of metaphysical problems.
Author : Marilù Papandreou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1009340506
A thorough reconstruction of Aristotle's account of artefacts that is sensitive to modern debates.
Author : Tom Angier
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826462715
Argues for the importance of the concept of 'techne' in constructing a new understanding of Aristotle's moral philosophy.
Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 110703146X
This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.
Author : Thomas Leddy
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1770483071
This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as ‘neat,’ ‘messy,’ ‘pretty,’ ‘lovely,’ ‘cute,’ and ‘pleasant.’ The author advances a general theory of aesthetic experience that can account for our appreciation of art, nature, and the everyday.
Author : Beth Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415623081
This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function in material culture. Preston argues that material culture essentially involves activities of production and use; she therefore adopts an action-theoretic foundation for a philosophy of material culture. Part 1 illustrates this foundation through a critique, revision, and extension of existing philosophical theories of action. Part 2 investigates a salient feature of material culture itself-its functionality. A basic account of function in material culture is constructed by revising and extending existing theories of biological function to fit the cultural case. Here the adjustments are for the most part necessitated by special features of function in material culture. These two parts of the project are held together by a trio of overarching themes: the relationship between individual and society, the problem of centralized control, and creativity.
Author : Devin Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108475574
Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being.
