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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Buridan on the metaphysics of the soul

Calvin G. Normore

pp. 63-75

Abstract

Normore's chapter focuses on the metaphysical issues stemming from Buridan's conception of the union of body and soul, also considered in the broader context of the union of substantial form and matter in general. Normore's argument traces in particular the rather strange metaphysical and mereological ramifications of Buridan's "homogeneity-thesis' of material substances (the thesis that all material substances by themselves, without their accidental dispositions, must be homogeneous: every quantitative part of a material substance is of the same kind as is the whole), as presented in Buridan's difficult discussion in Book II, q. 7.

Publication details

Published in:

Klima Gyula (2017) Questions on the soul by John Buridan and others: a companion to John Buridan's philosophy of mind. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 63-75

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51763-6_4

Full citation:

Normore Calvin G. (2017) „Buridan on the metaphysics of the soul“, In: G. Klima (ed.), Questions on the soul by John Buridan and others, Dordrecht, Springer, 63–75.