seigneur wrote:

Defense against what? Anyway, here's an exposition of hylemorphism http://www.newdualism.org/papers/D.Oderberg/HylemorphicDualism2.htm

It comes highly recommended by Edward Feser https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2008/12/oderberg-on-hylemorphic-dualism.html

Concerning prime matter, there's Oderberg's Real Essentialism, also highly recommended by Feser.

Thanks.

DanielCC wrote:

I disagree with the author but one of the man works on this topic is Jeff Brower'sAquinas's Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects.

A word of warning: avoid anything by Jaworski like the plague.


 

Thanks,I've listened to one of Brower's lectures before and it was good. The book seems promising.

Mysterious Brony wrote:

@ DanielCC

I'm curious. Why should we avoid Jaworski? 

Because the book is just non-reductive physicalism which, for reasons best known to himself, that author decides to call hylemorphism. It isn't even that he happens to reject hylemorphic dualism - it's that his variant of hylemorphism has virtually nothing to do with what is termed form in Aristotelian ontology (he implies form is spatial and structural arrangement) Also: the book contains the usual dismissive cliches about the g..g..g..gh..ghost in the machine!