{"id":2382,"date":"2025-01-29T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:12:19","slug":"thomistic-hylomorphism-as-oddly-strong-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/thomistic-hylomorphism-as-oddly-strong-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomistic Hylomorphism as Oddly Strong Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Emergence<\/i>\u2014the simultaneous autonomy of higher-level entities from lower-level entities and dependence on them\u2014is often thought to be a pervasive feature of our world. Humans are not mere bags of chemicals, yet when the chemicals go wrong so do we. Jessica Wilson develops an argument that such emergence comes in only two kinds\u2014strong and weak\u2014which roughly correspond to Rob Koons\u2019 staunch and faint-hearted varieties of hylomorphism. Unfortunately, I argue that both of these options involve giving up Aristotle\u2019s conception of the relations between different sciences. Instead, I draw on insights from Bernard Lonergan to develop a more thoroughly Thomistic account of hylomorphic emergence which simultaneously respects Aristotle\u2019s account of the sciences and avoids Wilson\u2019s hexalemma for contemporary metaphysicians by leaning on unicity of substantial form. This oddly strong form of emergence should prove attractive to Aristotelians and give anti-reductionists stronger footing in defending human dignity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergence\u2014the simultaneous autonomy of higher-level entities from lower-level entities and dependence on them\u2014is often thought to be a pervasive feature of our world. Humans are not mere bags of chemicals, yet when the chemicals go wrong so do we. Jessica Wilson develops an argument that such emergence comes in only two kinds\u2014strong and weak\u2014which roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"organizer":[20],"language":[29],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion-and-philosophy","organizer-pontificia-universita-s-tommaso-daquino-angelicum","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"organizer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizer?post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catforumroma.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}