ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
TRANSFORM investigates the development of hylomorphism – the philosophical theory that every physical object is composed of structurable matter and structuring form (“hyle” and “morphe” in Greek) – in the period 1400-1600. For most of its 2500-year history, from its Aristotelian beginnings to modern-day metaphysics, hylomorphism has been a fundamental philosophical notion. From around 1200, when the works of Aristotle and his Arabic commentators were translated into Latin, hylomorphism became central to scholastic thought, underpinning theories in, for example, cosmology, psychology, medicine, and theology. TRANSFORM focuses on the largely unstudied hylomorphic theory in the era of the…
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