2017 Hylomorphism Conference

The 2017 Hylomorphism Conference, which will be held at the Banff Centre from May 11, 2017 to May 14, 2017, is devoted to an in-depth examination of the doctrine of hylomorphism and its significance for a wide range of sub-disciplines of philosophy, from both a historical and a non-historical point of view.  The Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism holds that those entities which fall under it are compounds of matter (hyle) and form (morphe).  This event also coincides with the first annual meeting of the Canadian Metaphysics Collaborative (http://kathrin-koslicki-ytpt.squarespace.com/), an organization founded in 2015 whose aim is to facilitate collaboration among Canadian and Canadian-affiliated metaphysicians.

Keynote Speakers:

Kit Fine (New York University), “The Problem of Plenitude”
Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University), “Form and Matter in Kantian and post-Kantian Logic”
Michail Peramatzis (University of Oxford), "Aristotle's Hylomorphism: the Causal-Explanatory Model"

Main Program:

Speaker: Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi (University of Geneva), “Enmattered Virtues”; Commentator: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)

Speaker: Dana Goswick (University of Melbourne), “Hylomorphism Without Primitive Modality”; Commentator: Michael Raven (University of Victoria)

Speaker: William Jaworski (Fordham University), “Hylomorphism and Mind-Body Problems”; Commentator: Christopher Frey (University of South Carolina)

Speaker: Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin), “Forms are not Structures”; Commentator: Marcello Fiocco (University of California, Irvine)

Speaker: Marko Malink (New York University), “Aristotle on Principles as Elements”; Commentator: Margaret Cameron (University of Victoria)

Speaker: Asya Passinsky (New York University), “A Hylomorphic Theory of Social Objects”; Commentator: Simon Evnine (University of Miami)

Speaker: Nathanael Stein (Florida State University), “Definition and the Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Aristotle”; Commentator: Riin Sirkel (University of Vermont)

Posters:

Cruz A. Davis (Virgiania Tech), “Complexities and Degrees of Unity”

Joshua Johnson (Saint Louis University), “Strong Emergence and Hylomorphism”

Anne Siebels Peterson (University of Utah), “Unity and Plurality in Hylomorphic Composition”

Bryan C. Reece (University of Toronto), “A Hylomorphic Account of Action”

Graham Renz (University of Missouri), “Form as Structure: It’s Not So Simple”

Liva Rotkale (University of Latvia), “Aristotle’s Hylomorphism in a Mereological Framework”

Shane Maxwell Wilkins (Fordham University), “How Unicity Theorists Can Recover the Elements from Material Substances”

Other Participants:

Josh Blander (The King’s College, NY)
Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
Philip Corkum (University of Alberta)
Christopher Hauser (Rutgers)
Ka Ho Lam (University of Alberta)
Wolfgang Mann (Columbia University)
Jeremy W. Skrzypek (Saint Louis University)