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Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : James G. Lennox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521659760
The papers collected in this 2001 volume focus on Aristotle's systematic investigation of animals.
Author : S. M. Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Jason A. Tipton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199287956
This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science.
Author : Anthony Preus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biology
ISBN : UCAL:B5022425
Author : Andrea Falcon,David Lefebvre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107132931
Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.
Author : Robert Mayhew
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226512020
While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical oeuvre. Among many claims, Aristotle is said to have declared that females contribute nothing substantial to generation; that they have fewer teeth than males; that they are less spirited than males; and that woman are analogous to eunuchs. In The Female in Aristotle's Biology, Robert Mayhew aims not to defend Aristotle's ideas about females but to defend Aristotle against the common charge that his writings on female species were motivated by ideological bias. Mayhew points out that the tools of modern science and scientific experimentation were not available to the Greeks during Aristotle's time and that, consequently, Aristotle had relied not only on empirical observations when writing about living organisms but also on a fair amount of speculation. Further, he argues that Aristotle's remarks about females in his biological writings did not tend to promote the inferior status of ancient Greek women. Written with passion and precision, The Female in Aristotle's Biology will be of enormous value to students of philosophy, the history of science, and classical literature.
Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191629167
This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main biological treatises. Starting with his own ground-breaking study of Aristotle's natural teleology and its illuminating relationship with the Generation of Animals, Gotthelf proceeds to the axiomatic structure of biological explanation (and the first principles such explanation proceeds from) in the Parts of Animals. After an exploration of the implications of these two treatises for our understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, Gotthelf examines important aspects of the method by which Aristotle organizes his data in the History of Animals to make possible such a systematic, explanatory study of animals, offering a new view of the place of classification in that enterprise. In a concluding section on 'Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist', Gotthelf explores the basis of Charles Darwin's great praise of Aristotle and, in the first printing of a lecture delivered worldwide, provides an overview of Aristotle as a philosophically-oriented scientist, and 'a proper verdict' on his greatness as scientist.
Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836579
Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.
Author : Allan Gotthelf,James G. Lennox
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822977599
Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than 25 million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. In spite of the popular interest in her ideas, or perhaps because of it, Rand’s work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. Though best known among philosophers for her strong support of egoism in ethics and capitalism in politics, there is an increasingly widespread awareness of both the range and the systematic character of Rand’s philosophic thought. This new series, developed in conjunction with the Ayn Rand Society, an affiliated group of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The first volume starts not with the metaphysical and epistemological fundamentals of Rand’s thought, but with central aspects of her ethical theory. Though her endorsement of ethical egoism is well-known—one of her most familiar essay collections is The Virtue of Selfishness—the character of her egoism is not. The chapters in this volume address the basis of her egoism in a virtue-centered normative ethics; her account of how moral norms in general are themselves based on a fundamental choice by an agent to value his own life; and how her own approach to the foundations of ethics is to be compared and contrasted with familiar approaches in the analytic ethical tradition. Philosophers interested in the objectivity of value, in the way ethical theory is (and is not) virtue-based, and in acquiring a serious understanding of an egoistic moral theory worthy of attention will find much to consider in this volume, which includes critical responses to several of its main essays.
Author : Marjorie Grene,David J. Depew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521643805
Examines how the philosophy of biology has evolved to our current understanding.
Author : Peter Brian Medawar,J. S. Medawar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674045378
Intended for browsing by educated persons such as biologists, psychologists, sociologists, and other "reflective people who see in biology the science most relevant to the understanding and melioration of the human condition." Lengthy enties. Index.
Author : Richard A. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107065376
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical foundations and development of modern biological classification.
Author : Richard A. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139488297
There is long-standing disagreement among systematists about how to divide biodiversity into species. Over twenty different species concepts are used to group organisms, according to criteria as diverse as morphological or molecular similarity, interbreeding and genealogical relationships. This, combined with the implications of evolutionary biology, raises the worry that either there is no single kind of species, or that species are not real. This book surveys the history of thinking about species from Aristotle to modern systematics in order to understand the origin of the problem, and advocates a solution based on the idea of the division of conceptual labor, whereby species concepts function in different ways - theoretically and operationally. It also considers related topics such as individuality and the metaphysics of evolution, and how scientific terms get their meaning. This important addition to the current debate will be essential for philosophers and historians of science, and for biologists.