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  • You may (or may not be) be interested in the hylomorphist school of thought, which goes back to Aquinas and Aristotle.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • You may (or may not be) be interested in the hylomorphist school of thought, which goes back to Aquinas and Aristotle.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • Descartes was a Scholastic-Aristotelian hylomorphist, who thought that the soul is not a substance but the first actuality or substantial form of the living body (Hoffman 1986, Skirry 2003).

    Descartes and the Pineal Gland Lokhorst, Gert-Jan 2008

  • It's an argument for substance dualism, and I'm not a substance dualist but a hylomorphist, so I have my disagreements.

    Additional Links 2006

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