Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
Edited by Gideon Manning, California Institute of Technology
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Biographical note
Gideon Manning, Ph.D. (2006) in Philosophy, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology.
Readership
All those interested in intellecutal history, the history of early modern science and philosophy and the reception of Aristotle and scholasticism in the seventeenth century.
Table of contents
Preface
List of Contributors
List of illustrations
Three Biased Reminders about Hylomorphism in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, Gideon Manning
Body, Soul and Anatomy in Late Aristotelian Psychology, Michael Edwards
Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in Daniel Sennert, Hiro Hirai
Elective Affinity Before Geoffroy: Daniel Sennert’s Atomistic Explanation of Vinous and Acetous Fermentation, William R. Newman
Substantial Forms as Causes: From Suarez to Descartes, Tad Schmaltz
Mechanizing the Sensitive Soul, Gary Hatfield
Descartes and His Critics on Matter and Form, Atomism and Individuation, Roger Ariew
Spirit is a Stomach: The Iatrochemical Roots of Leibniz’s Theory of Corporeal Substance, Justin Smith
Leibnizian Hylomorphism, Daniel Garber
Index
List of Contributors
List of illustrations
Three Biased Reminders about Hylomorphism in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, Gideon Manning
Body, Soul and Anatomy in Late Aristotelian Psychology, Michael Edwards
Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation in Daniel Sennert, Hiro Hirai
Elective Affinity Before Geoffroy: Daniel Sennert’s Atomistic Explanation of Vinous and Acetous Fermentation, William R. Newman
Substantial Forms as Causes: From Suarez to Descartes, Tad Schmaltz
Mechanizing the Sensitive Soul, Gary Hatfield
Descartes and His Critics on Matter and Form, Atomism and Individuation, Roger Ariew
Spirit is a Stomach: The Iatrochemical Roots of Leibniz’s Theory of Corporeal Substance, Justin Smith
Leibnizian Hylomorphism, Daniel Garber
Index
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