Aristotle's Revenge

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• ReadEvalPost · Jul 5, 2022 · Recommends

  I highly recommend Feser's Aristotle's Revenge that's mentioned in the article. Very much dismantles the pervasive materialist attitude.

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• throw0101a · Nov 20, 2019 · Recommends

  Another good book on Aristotle's metaphysics and the modern world is Edward Feser's Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science: > Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts…

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• lo_zamoyski · May 19, 2026 · Recommends

  I failed to mention a great recent English language resource on the topic, namely, Ed Feser's "Immortal Souls" [0]. For broader philosophy of science context, his recent "Aristotle's Revenge" [1] will serve as a good companion read. [0] https://a.co/d/03xoxiaY [1] https://a.co/d/00oSQ64j

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• throw0101a · Jul 3, 2023 · Mentions

  …Bacon. Some would disagree: > Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43277412-aristotle-s-rev...

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• throw0101a · Jul 24, 2023 · Mentions

  For quantum-ness, see perhaps "Causality and radioactive decay": * https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2014/12/causality-and-radio... The book Aristotle's Revenge has "§5.2 Aristotle and quantum mechanics" as well per the table of contents (been a few years since I read it): * https://www.editiones-scholasticae.de/artikel/aristotles-rev... * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43277412

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• lo_zamoyski · Jul 24, 2023 · Mentions

  …as James Ladyman and Don Ross in their book 'Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized', and by the physicist Max Tegmark. I have a lot to say about Ladyman and Ross’s project in the forthcoming 'Aristotle’s Revenge'[1], all of it critical. Suffice it for present purposes to note that this sort of view essentially identifies the physical world with a kind of Platonic abstract object. Ladyman and Ross try to deal…

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