In this paper, I propose a theory of living organisms that captures the insights of both traditional Aristotelian hylomorphism and John Dupré's “biological processualism”. Like traditional Aristotelian hylomorphism, the proposed theory understands material objects to be comprised of both matter and form. Unlike contemporary structural varieties of hylomorphism, however, it does not understand the form of a material object to be a relation, configuration, or structure exhibited by its parts but an activity or process in which its matter is continuously engaged. Following Mark Steen, I call the proposed theory “Hyloenergeism”. As a version of hylomorphism, hyloenergeism better captures the inherent dynamism of living organisms than contemporary structural approaches. And it does so not by abandoning the substantialist paradigm, as Dupré's biological processualism does, but by reconceptualizing the nature of material substances as possessing a processual core. Hyloenergeism, then, paves a middle way for those looking for a substance view of living organisms sensitive to the concerns raised by contemporary processualist philosophers of biology.

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相信这个过程吗？Hyloenergeism 和生物过程论

在本文中，我提出了一种生物体理论，该理论汲取了传统亚里士多德的类质论和约翰·杜普雷的“生物过程论”的见解。与传统的亚里士多德形质论一样，所提出的理论将物质对象理解为由物质和形式组成。然而，与当代结构变体不同，它并不将物质对象的形式理解为其各部分所表现出的关系、配置或结构，而是其物质持续参与的活动或过程。继马克·斯蒂恩之后，我将所提出的理论称为“Hyloenergeism”。作为 Hylomorphism 的一个版本，Hyloenergeism 比当代结构方法更好地捕捉了生物体固有的活力。它并不是像杜普雷的生物过程论那样放弃实体主义范式，而是通过将物质实体的性质重新概念化为拥有过程核心来实现这一点。因此，Hyloenergeism 为那些寻求对生物体的物质观点敏感的人铺平了一条中间道路，这些观点对当代过程主义生物学哲学家提出的问题敏感。