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Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies

Christian Pfeiffer

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2018)

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The Bundle Theory in Gregory of Nyssa’s Apologia in hexaemeron.Jonathan Greig - forthcoming - In Johannes Zachhuber & Anna Marmodoro (eds.), Gregory of Nyssa: _On the Hexaëmeron_. Text, Translation, Commentary. Oxford University Press: Oxford.details This paper looks at Gregory of Nyssa's so-called "bundle theory" sensible individuals and matter (as recently argued by Gerd Van Riel and Thomas Wauters in a 2020 article) amidst the broader context of Gregory's view of created beings and his reception of Neoplatonist, Stoic, and Aristotelian conceptions of particulars and matter. I argue that Gregory's position is closer to an Aristotelian position, despite the parallels to Plotinus and other contemporaneous bundle theory positions: in arguing against prime matter, and insofar as (...) Bundle Theories in Metaphysics Direct download Export citation Bookmark
Zeno Beach.Jacob Rosen - 2020 - Phronesis 65 (4):467-500.details On Zeno Beach there are infinitely many grains of sand, each half the size of the last. Supposing Aristotle denied the possibility of Zeno Beach, did he have a good argument for the denial? Three arguments, each of ancient origin, are examined: the beach would be infinitely large; the beach would be impossible to walk across; the beach would contain a part equal to the whole, whereas parts must be lesser. It is attempted to show that none of these arguments (...) Aristotle's Works: The Physics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Natural Science in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Aristotle’s Account of the Immobility of Place: A Cold Case.Diana Quarantotto - 2022 - Phronesis 67 (4):421-461.details At least since the Neoplatonic commentators, Aristotle’s thesis that place is immobile has been considered a serious problem for his theory of place and locomotion. This diagnosis, however, is essentially based on a single passage (212a14–21)—the famous passage on the boat moving in a river—which interpreters find both central and obscure or imprecise, and which has so far resisted a literal reading. I tackle this issue by considering texts hitherto neglected by scholars and propose a new and charitable interpretation, showing (...) Aristotle in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
The Arithmetical dictum.Paolo Maffezioli & Riccardo Zanichelli - 2023 - History and Philosophy of Logic 44 (4):373-394.details Building on previous scholarly work on the mathematical roots of assertoric syllogistic we submit that for Aristotle, the semantic value of the copula in universal affirmative propositions is the relation of divisibility on positive integers. The adequacy of this interpretation, labeled here ‘arithmetical dictum’, is assessed both theoretically and textually with respect to the existing interpretations, especially the so-called ‘mereological dictum’. Logic and Philosophy of Logic Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark
Located in Space: Plato’s Theory of Psychic Motion.Douglas R. Campbell - 2022 - Ancient Philosophy 42 (2):419-442.details I argue that Plato thinks that the soul has location, surface, depth, and extension, and that the Timaeus’ composition of the soul out of eight circles is intended literally. A novel contribution is the development of an account of corporeality that denies the entailment that the soul is corporeal. I conclude by examining Aristotle’s objection to the Timaeus’ psychology and then the intellectual history of this reading of Plato. Plato: Cosmology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Exact Sciences in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Immortality of the Soul in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Laws in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Metaphysics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Natural Science in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Perception in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Phaedo in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Teleology in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Plato: Timaeus in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Modalité et changement: δύναμις et cinétique aristotélicienne.Marion Florian - 2023 - Dissertation, Université Catholique de Louvaindetails The present PhD dissertation aims to examine the relation between modality and change in Aristotle’s metaphysics. -/- On the one hand, Aristotle supports his modal realism (i.e., worldly objects have modal properties - potentialities and essences - that ground the ascriptions of possibility and necessity) by arguing that the rejection of modal realism makes change inexplicable, or, worse, banishes it from the realm of reality. On the other hand, the Stagirite analyses processes by means of modal notions (‘change is the (...) Aristotle: Actuality and Potentiality in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: First Philosophy in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Matter and Material Change in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Necessity and Possibility in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Time in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Philosophy of Physics, Misc in Philosophy of Physical Science Philosophy, Misc Time and Change in Metaphysics Direct download (2 more) Export citation Bookmark

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