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Naturalistic Problems with Substance

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This chapter argues that a neo-Aristotelian account of substance faces challenges from the natural sciences. I consider Lowe’s account of substances as being categorized as either material bodies or living organisms. To assess these two categories of substances, I consider developments from physics (esp., quantum field theory), and biology (esp., the evolutionary extended synthesis).

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Winters, A.M. (2017). Naturalistic Problems with Substance. In: Natural Processes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67570-1_4

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