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Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts (2016)
Journal Article
Marmodoro, A., & Page, B. (2016). Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts. Vivarium: A Journal for Medieval and Early-Modern Philosophy and Intellectual Life, 54(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341310

Thomas Aquinas sees a sharp metaphysical distinction between artifacts and substances, but does not offer any explicit account of it. We argue that for Aquinas the contribution that an artisan makes to the generation of an artifact compromises the ca... Read More about Aquinas on Forms, Substances and Artifacts.

Anaxagoras' Qualitative Gunk (2015)
Journal Article
Marmodoro, A. (2015). Anaxagoras' Qualitative Gunk. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(3), 402-422

Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World (2015)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2015). Gregory of Nyssa on the Creation of the World. In A. Marmodoro, & B. Prince (Eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (94-111). Cambridge University Press

Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism? (2014)
Journal Article
Marmodoro, A., Murphy, R. A., & Baker, A. (2014). Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(05), 494-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003798

We argue that the claim that essence-based causal explanations emerge, hydra-like, from an inherence heuristic is incomplete. No plausible mechanism for the transition from concrete properties, or cues, to essences is provided. Moreover, the fundamen... Read More about Does the inherence heuristic take us to psychological essentialism?.

Causation without glue: Aristotle on causal powers (2013)
Book Chapter
Marmodoro, A. (2013). Causation without glue: Aristotle on causal powers. In C. Natali, C. Viano, & M. Zingano (Eds.), Les Quatre Causes d'Aristote. Origins et Interpretations (221-246). Peeters, Louvain