Full Idea
Hylomorphism admits of an alternative formulation, as an explanatory schema at a different level of analysis, not competing with corpuscular-mechanistic theory, but accounting for abstract features of the world - notably unity and endurance of substances.
Gist of Idea
Hylomorphism may not be a rival to science, but an abstract account of unity and endurance
Source
Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 06.1)
Book Reference
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.101
A Reaction
Pasnau is clearly sympathetic. As a view of why normal objects have unity and persist over time it is almost the only decent theory around. Hawley, for example, struggles to explain how 'stages' of a thing are linked. Classical mereology is silly.