Bob Pasnau

Bob Pasnau, a philosophy professor, discusses ideas about substance from Aquinas to Locke, Leibniz, and Descartes. They explore the continuity of scholasticism, the variety of interpretations within it, and the concept of substantial form. They also discuss the transition of substances, the survival of forms, and the 17th-century debates over substantial forms, including Descartes' dualism.