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16Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion by Christopher ByrneJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (2): 399-400. 2020.Seventeenth-century advancements in physical science are often presented as overthrowing the Aristotelian tradition; perhaps Aristotle's emphasis on formal and final causes left little room for a physical theory grounded in material and efficient causes. In Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion, Christopher Byrne argues that Aristotle is not to blame, as he indeed possessed a unified theory of matter and motion. In contrast to traditional interpretations, which place an undue explanatory burd…Read more
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58Mixing and the Formation of Homoeomers in on Generation and Corruption 2.7Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54. 2018.In On Generation and Corruption 1. 10 and 2. 7 Aristotle discusses mixing and mixtures. Recent scholars tend to read the two texts together, thus treating the production of homoeomers in GC 2. 7 as a process of mixing the material elements. I argue that the tendency to treat homoeomers as mixtures of material elements is incorrect: GC 1. 10 explains the mixing of bodies that have already been produced from the elements, whereas GC 2. 7 explains the processes that produce compound bodies from sim…Read more
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44Elemental structure and the transformation of the elements in on generation and corruption 2. 4Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 45 195. 2013.
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Substantial Change and the Limiting Case of Aristotelian MatterHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 30 (4): 293-310. 2013.
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46Luca Castagnoli. Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine (review)Augustinian Studies 42 (2): 316-319. 2011.
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42The Powers of Aristotle’s Soul by Thomas Kjeller JohansenJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (1): 162-163. 2014.In The Powers of Aristotle’s Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen offers a fresh treatment of Aristotle’s De Anima, showing that Aristotle can successfully explain the cause of life and activities of living things by appealing to a minimal number of definitionally independent capacities, in much the way that a faculty psychologist would. Johansen situates Aristotle’s account of the soul within the framework of his natural philosophy, arguing that the definitional independence of the soul’s capacities d…Read more
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65Prime Matter Without ExtensionJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (4): 523-546. 2016.according to a certain interpretative tradition, Aristotle is committed to prime matter—an indefinite, indeterminate, and unknowable material substratum that exists as pure potentiality and underlies, among other features, the elements and their mutual transformations.1 This interpretative tradition has come under attack from various sources; among such sources are those who wish to deny Aristotle’s commitment to a material substratum that is ontologically more basic than the elements, and who i…Read more
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