Aristotle''s Ontology of Artefacts

"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"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Marilu Papandreou, Marilù Papandreou, Marilu (Universitetet I Bergen Papandreou
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009340502
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934050-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, 4th century, c 399 to c 300 BCE