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    Colloquium 3 Commentary on Hayes
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 37 (1): 97-106. 2023.
    In his paper, Josh Hayes argues that inclination (ῥοπή) is the nature of each element. It is an active and passive principle that explains why the elements move to their proper places. Thus, according to Hayes, by introducing inclination in De Caelo IV 1, Aristotle posits a single explanatory factor that accounts for all elemental motions. By doing so, he answers the question, posed in Physics VIII 4, of what the cause of elemental motion is. In my comments, I will contest these claims. Aristotl…Read more
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    Aristotle’s Theory of Bodies
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus unde…Read more
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    Negation and Judgment in Joseph Geyser. Aristotelian Research in the 19th Century
    In Christof Rapp, Colin G. King & Gerald Hartung (eds.), Aristotelian Studies in 19th Century Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 97-130. 2018.
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    Aristotle and the Thesis of Mereological Potentialism
    Philosophical Inquiry 42 (3-4): 28-66. 2018.
    According to Aristotle, the way in which the parts of a whole are is different from the way in which the whole exists. Parts of an object are only potentially, whereas the whole exists actually. Although commentators agree that Aristotle held this doctrine, little effort has been made to spell out precisely what it could mean to say that the parts are only potentially. In this paper, I shall attempt to elucidate that claim and explain the philosophical motivation behind it. I will argue that the…Read more
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    Peripersonal space as the space of the bodily self
    with Jean-Paul Noel, Olaf Blanke, and Andrea Serino
    Cognition 144 49-57. 2015.
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    Philosophie des Geistes
    In Christof Rapp & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Aristoteles-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Metzler. pp. 580-584. 2011.
    Im Vergleich zu seiner Ontologie und Ethik haben Aristoteles’ Überlegungen zur Philosophie des Geistes die moderne Philosophie weniger stark beeinflusst, und die meisten modernen Theorien wurden weitestgehend ohne expliziten Rückgriff auf Aristoteles entwickelt. Dennoch bleibt die aristotelische Philosophie des Geistes für viele heutige Debatten von großer Relevanz, sei es, dass sie als ein unmittelbarer Vorläufer moderner Theorien begriffen wird, sei es, dass sie gerade aufgrund der Verschieden…Read more
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    What is Matter in Aristotle's Hylomorphism?
    Ancient Philosophy Today 3 (2): 148-171. 2021.
    Aristotle's notion of matter has been seen either as unintelligible, it being some mysterious potential entity that is nothing in its own right, or as simply the notion of an everyday object. The latter is the common assumption in contemporary approaches to hylomorphism, but as has been pointed out, especially by scholars with a background in ancient philosophy, if we conceive of matter as an object itself we cannot account for the unity of hylomorphic substances. Thus, they assume that a hylomo…Read more
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    Timothy Clarke: Aristotle and the Eleatic One
    Journal of Philosophy 117 (9): 520-525. 2020.
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    The Perfection of Bodies: Aristotle’s De Caelo I.1
    with Gábor Betegh and Francesca Pedriali
    Rhizomata 1 (1): 30-62. 2013.
    : In this paper we give a detailed reconstruction of the first chapter of De Caelo I.1. Aristotle attempts to prove there that bodies are complete and perfect in virtue of being extended in three dimensions. We offer an analysis of this argument and argue that it gives important insight into the role the notion of body plays in physical science. Contrary to other interpretations, we argue that it is an argument about physical, as opposed to mathematical, bodies and that the perfection and comple…Read more