History of Philosophy Workshop: Patrick Connolly (Johns Hopkins), "Newton’s Matter Theory: Between Mechanism and Hylomorphism"
September 11, 2026
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3:00PM - 5:00PM EDT
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Robbins Library, Emerson 211
Abstract: The shift from hylomorphism to mechanism is among the defining features of the early modern philosophy. Mechanist philosophers rejected the Scholastic hylomorphic accounts of bodies on the grounds that they were unintelligible, unparsimonious...