Benjamin Morison

On Location

Aristotle's Concept of Place

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science--Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. Morison presents an authoritative analysis and defense of this account of what it is for something to be somewhere, and demonstrates its enduring philosophical interest and value.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780199247912
• ISBN-10: 0199247919
• Artikelnr.: 24082922

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Morison is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Exeter College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Places, Natural Places, and the Power of Place
2: Being In
3: Zeno's Paradox of Place
4: Three Possibilities for Place: Matter, Form, and Space
5: Aristotle's Concept of Place
Bibliography, Index