%0 Journal Article
%T What Killed Substantial Form?
%A David Banach
%J The Saint Anselm Journal
%D 2007
%I Institute for Saint Anselm Studies
%X What killed substantial form, and can it live again? Substantial form died at the beginning of the scientific revolution when a new method made it unnecessary and a new view of the senses revealed by this new method made it unknowable. Conway's Game of Life as a model for Mechanism reveals not only the problems that make it impossible for contemporary thinkers to take substantial form seriously, but also a way in which the idea might be revived in a different form. The proponent of substantial form in the modern world should not oppose mechanism, but should insist upon it. If a thoroughgoing mechanism is true, it implies its own limits and requires the resurrection of form in a way that even a mechanist could love.
%K Substantial Form
%K Scientific Revolution
%K Game of Life
%K Mechanism
%K Galileo
%U http://www.anselm.edu/Documents/Institute%20for%20Saint%20Anselm%20Studies/Abstracts/4.5.3.2c_51Banach.pdf