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Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind: How Hylomorphism Solves the Mind-Body Problem by William Jaworski (Hardcover, 2016)

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ISBN-13: 9780198749561, 978-0198749561. Hylomorphism claims that structure is a basic ontological and explanatory principle. Those structures are responsible for individuals being the kinds of things they are, and having the kinds of powers or capacities they have.

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William Jaworski shows how hylomorphism can be used to solve mind-body problems--the question of how thought, feeling, perception, and other mental phenomena fit into the physical world. Hylomorphism claims that structure is a basic ontological and explanatory principle, and is responsible for individuals being the kinds of things they are, and having the powers or capacities they have. From a hylomorphic perspective, mind-body problems are byproducts of a worldview that rejects structure, and which lacks a basic principle which distinguishes the parts of the physical universe that can think, feel, and perceive from those that can't. Without such a principle, the existence of those powers in the physical world can start to look inexplicable and mysterious. But if mental phenomena are structural phenomena then they are uncontroversially part of the physical world. Hylomorphism thus provides an elegant way of solving mind-body problems.