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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2023

Marilù Papandreou
Marilù Papandreou
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Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

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Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts , pp. vii - ix
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Print publication year: 2023
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. List of Abbreviations

  4. Introduction

    1. 0.1Artefacts in the Contemporary Debate

    2. 0.2Artefacts in Aristotle: Some Preliminary Observations

    3. 0.3Aristotelian Scholarship: The Status Quaestionis

    4. 0.4A Piecemeal Approach

    5. 0.5Aristotle’s Ontology of Artefacts

  5. 1The Platonic Heritage

    1. 1.1Plato’s Metaphysics of Artefacts

      1. 1.1.1Plato’s Ideas of Artefacts in the Cratylus and Republic X

      2. 1.1.2The Doubts of the Young Socrates in the Parmenides

      3. 1.1.3Divine Craftsmanship in the Timaeus

    2. 1.2Building on Plato’s Theoretical Shortcomings

      1. 1.2.1Final Causation

      2. 1.2.2Models, Likenesses and the Notion of Imitation

    3. 1.3Platonic Intuitions as the Source of Aristotle’s Account of Artefacts

      1. 1.3.1Ideas and Forms

      2. 1.3.2Axiology and Metaphysics

      3. 1.3.3Carving Nature at the Joints

      4. 1.3.4Parts and Whole

  6. 2Using Artefacts against Plato

    1. 2.1The Arguments

      1. 2.1.1Against the Arguments from the Sciences

      2. 2.1.2The Threat of Aporia

      3. 2.1.3The Logical or Semantic Argument

      4. 2.1.4Aristotle’s Argument from Evidence

    2. 2.2The Notion of Separation

    3. 2.3Aristotle’s Dialectical Use of Artefacts

  7. 3Aristotle’s Building Blocks in the Physics

    1. 3.1The Theory of the Four Causes and the Art Analogy

    2. 3.2The Salient Difference between Artefacts and Natural Beings

      1. 3.2.1The Definition of Nature in Phys. 2.1

      2. 3.2.2Daedalus’ Statues, Machines, the Olive Tree and the Swallow’s Nest

    3. 3.3Artefacts Will Typically Come-to-Be by Art

      1. 3.3.1Art as Principle

      2. 3.3.2Other Dependent Objects

    4. 3.4Some Artefacts Will Only Come-to-Be by Art and Some Natural Beings Will Also Come-to-Be by Art

      1. 3.4.1Inadvertently Made Objects

      2. 3.4.2The Case of Artificial Mixtures

  8. 4Artefacts as Hylomorphic Compounds

    1. 4.1Artefacts Undergo Unqualified Coming-to-Be

      1. 4.1.1Intrinsic Change in the Matter

      2. 4.1.2Per Se Unities

      3. 4.1.3Nature-Facts and Found-Objects: The Paperweight and the Strigil

    2. 4.2It’s Not Bronze, It’s a Brazen Statue

      1. 4.2.1The Eikeininon Rule

      2. 4.2.2Actuality-Inducing Action as the Relevant Change in Matter

    3. 4.3Synonymy Principle

      1. 4.3.1The Synonymy Principle Applied to Artefacts

      2. 4.3.2The Form in the Mind of the Artisan as the Form of the Object in Thought and as in Actuality

      3. 4.3.3The Form in the Object in Potentiality: The Artisans’ Tools

    4. 4.4Neither Just Matter nor Accidental Beings

  9. 5Forms of Artefacts as Inert and Intermittent

    1. 5.1Art as the Form in the Mind of the Artisan

      1. 5.1.1Art as Efficient Cause of Qualified Coming-to-Be

      2. 5.1.2Art as Efficient Cause of Unqualified Coming-to-Be

    2. 5.2Against Transmission Theory: How the Form in the Object Is Not an Efficient Cause Explained through Biology

      1. 5.2.1On the Difference between the Semen and the Tools

      2. 5.2.2Heartless Artefacts

    3. 5.3Autonomy, Life and Substantiality

    4. 5.4Eternity and Substantiality

  10. 6The Relation between Matter and Form in Artefacts

    1. 6.1Artefact-Kinds as Functions

    2. 6.2Diachronic and Synchronic Matter

      1. 6.2.1Remote and Proximate Matter

      2. 6.2.2The Proximate Matter of Artefacts: The Many-to-Many Relationship

      3. 6.2.3The Sources of Hindrances in the Remote Matter of Artefacts

    3. 6.3The Synchronic Matter of Artefacts: Functional Matter and the Homonymy Principle

    4. 6.4What Then? Persisting Matter

    5. 6.5The Unity of Matter and Form and Substantiality

  11. 7The Relation Between Parts and Whole in Artefacts

    1. 7.1How to Explain What a Thing Is: The Differentiae in H 2

    2. 7.2The Static Picture

      1. 7.2.1Unity by Contact

      2. 7.2.2Unity by Continuity

      3. 7.2.3Unity by Wholeness

    3. 7.3Unity and the Substantiality of Artefacts

      1. 7.3.1Having a Form, but with Parts in Actuality

      2. 7.3.2Failing Met. Z 13’s Substantiality Criterion

      3. 7.3.3Hylomorphism and Substantiality Diverge

      4. 7.3.4Unqualified Coming-to-Be Reconsidered: Production and Destruction

  12. 8The Physics and Metaphysics of Artefacts

    1. 8.1The Dynamic Picture: Maintenance and Performance

    2. 8.2Back to the Physics?

    3. 8.3Artefacts as Objects of Inquiry

      1. 8.3.1The Physicist, the Artisan and the User

      2. 8.3.2The Metaphysician

      3. 8.3.3The Cheap Coppersmith and the Spit-and-Lampstand

  13. Conclusions

  14. Bibliography

  15. Index Locorum

  16. Subject Index

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  • Marilù Papandreou, Universitetet i Bergen, Norway
  • Book: Aristotle's Ontology of Artefacts
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