James G. Lennox

Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology

Studies in the Origins of Life Science
Herausgeber: Ruse, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The papers collected in this volume focus on Aristotle's systematic investigation of animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780521659765
• ISBN-10: 0521659760
• Artikelnr.: 22356890

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Inquiry and Explanation: Introduction
1. Divide and explain: the Posterior Analytics in practice
2. Between data and demonstration: the Analytics and the Historia Animalium
3. Aristotelian problems
4. Putting philosophy of science to the test: the case of Aristotle's biology
5. The disappearance of Aristotle's biology: a Hellenistic mystery
Part II. Matter, Form and Kind: Introduction
6. Are Aristotelian species eternal?
7. Kinds, forms of kinds, and the more and less in Aristotle's biology
8. Material and formal natures in Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium
9. Nature does nothing in vain...
Part III. Teleological Explanation: Introduction
10. Teleology, chance, and Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation
11. Aristotle on chance
12. Theophrastus on the limits of teleology
13. Plato's unnatural teleology.