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- Title
Hylomorphism and the Priority Principle.
- Authors
Skrzypek, Jeremy W.
- Abstract
According to Jeffrey Brower's hylomorphic account of material substances, prime matter and substantial forms together compose material substances, and material substances and accidental forms together compose accidental unities. In a recent article, Andrew Bailey has argued that Brower's account has the counter-intuitive implication that no human person is ever the primary possessor, the primary thinker, of her own thoughts. In this paper, I consider various ways in which Brower might reply to this objection. I first consider several "invariant strategies", solutions that do not require any significant alteration to Brower's account. I argue that these strategies are unsuccessful. I then introduce two ways of modifying Brower's hylomorphic account of material substances so as to avoid Bailey's objection. I argue that these "variant strategies" are successful, but they require that Brower significantly alter one or more of the main features of his account.
- Subjects
SUBSTANCE (Philosophy); HYLOMORPHISM; ABSOLUTE, The; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Metaphysica, 2017, Vol 18, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
1437-2053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/mp-2017-0010