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Models for hylomorphism
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dc.contributor.author | Jacinto, Bruno Miguel | |
dc.contributor.author | Cotnoir, Aaron | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-19T13:30:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-19T13:30:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-03-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jacinto , B M & Cotnoir , A 2019 , ' Models for hylomorphism ' , Journal of Philosophical Logic , vol. In press . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09501-3 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-3611 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 256901635 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 81728d14-a03a-40ed-832e-c1a9380c5199 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85062872855 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-4528-7570/work/65702583 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000494222600007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/17312 | |
dc.description | The research and writing of this paper was supported in part by a 2017–2018 Leverhulme Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. | en |
dc.description.abstract | In a series of papers (Fine et al., 1982; Fine, Noûs28(2), 137–158; 1994, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 23, 61–74, 1999) Fine develops his hylomorphic theory of embodiments. In this article, we supply a formal semantics for this theory that is adequate to the principles laid down for it in (Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 23, 61–74, 1999). In Section 1, we lay out the theory of embodiments as Fine presents it. In Section 2, we argue on Cantorian grounds that the theory needs to be stabilized, and sketch some ways forward, discussing various choice points in modeling the view. In Section 3, we develop a formal semantics for the theory of embodiments by constructing embodiments in stages and restricting the domain of the second-order quantifiers. In Section 4 we give a few illustrative examples to show how the models deliver Finean hylomorphic consequences. In Section 5, we prove that Fine’s principles are sound with respect to this semantics. In Section 6 we present some inexpressibility results concerning Fine’s various notions of parthood and show that in our formal semantics these notions are all expressible using a single mereological primitive. In Section 7, we prove several mereological results stemming from the model theory, showing that the mereology is surprisingly robust. In Section 8, we draw some philosophical lessons from the formal semantics, and in particular respond to Koslicki’s (2008) main objection to Fine’s theory. In the appendix we present proofs of the inexpressibility results of Section 6. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Philosophical Logic | en |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en |
dc.subject | Objects | en |
dc.subject | Parthood | en |
dc.subject | Composition | en |
dc.subject | Mereology | en |
dc.subject | Hylomorphism | en |
dc.subject | Rigid embodiment | en |
dc.subject | Variable embodiment | en |
dc.subject | Qua-objects | en |
dc.subject | Atomism | en |
dc.subject | Gunk | en |
dc.subject | Junk | en |
dc.subject | Aristotle | en |
dc.subject | Neo-Aristotelian | en |
dc.subject | Cantor | en |
dc.subject | Cardinality | en |
dc.subject | Iterative | en |
dc.subject | Hierarchy | en |
dc.subject | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | B | en |
dc.title | Models for hylomorphism | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | The Leverhulme Trust | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09501-3 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RF-2017-046\10 | en |
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