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Author : David M. Balme,Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Mathesis Publications
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015011809715
Author : S. Marc Cohen,Sheldon M. Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521533139
Explores Aristotle's concept of nature and its role in scientific explanation.
Author : Andrea Falcon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521854393
Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.
Author : James G. Lennox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521659760
In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.
Author : Jason A. Tipton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319014210
This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. It raises the question of how easy it is to clearly distinguish between what some might describe as “merely” biological and the philosophical. It explores the notion and consequences of describing the activity in which Aristotle is engaged as philosophical biology. The book examines such questions as: do readers of Aristotle have in mind organisms like Ascidians or Holothurians when trying to understand Aristotle’s argument regarding plant-like animals? Do they need the phenomena in front of them to understand the terms of the philosophical argument in a richer way? The discussion of plant-like animals is important in Aristotle because of the question about the continuum between plant and animal life. Where does Aristotle draw the line? Plant-like animals bring this question into focus and demonstrate the indeterminacy of any potential solution to the division. This analysis of Parts of Animals shows that the study of the nature of the organic world was Aristotle’s way into such ontological problems as the relationship between matter and form, or form and function, or the heterogeneity of the many different kinds of being.
Author : Geert Keil,Nora Kreft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107192690
The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.
Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521310911
An overview of biology and philosophy is followed by three sections on individual issues definition and demonstration, teleology and necessity in nature, and metaphysical themes.
Author : Pierre Pellegrin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438491486
In Animals in the World, renowned Aristotle scholar Pierre Pellegrin attempts to demonstrate that Aristotle, by proposing an original version of natural perfection, opposes the whole of the Greek tradition. Nature is perfect, not only in its harmony of a complete and well-organized whole, but also because it brings together functionally perfect individuals.
Author : David Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107055131
This collection of groundbreaking new essays show how Aristotle's natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Zoology
ISBN : UCAL:$B287211
Author : James G. Lennox,Robert Bolton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139493215
This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the University of Pittsburgh entitled 'Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle', to honor Professor Allan Gotthelf's many contributions to the field of ancient philosophy; a few are contributions from those who were invited but could not attend. The contributors, all longstanding friends of Professor Gotthelf, are among the most accomplished scholars in the field of ancient philosophy today.
Author : S. M. Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197732
Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Author : Devin Henry,Karen Margrethe Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107010369
Explores the extent to which Aristotle's ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his 'scientific' works.
Author : Mariska Leunissen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139490412
In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in birds for the sake of flying). Whereas much of recent scholarship has focused on uncovering the (meta-)physical underpinnings of Aristotle's teleology and its contrasts with his notions of chance and necessity, this book examines Aristotle's use of the theory of natural teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena. Close analyses of Aristotle's natural treatises and his Posterior Analytics show what methods are used for the discovery of functions or ends that figure in teleological explanations, how these explanations are structured, and how well they work in making sense of phenomena. The book will be valuable for all who are interested in Aristotle's natural science, his philosophy of science, and his biology.
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum,Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519772
Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. The essays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. they locate their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.
