Allan Gotthelf

Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780199287956
• ISBN-10: 0199287953
• Artikelnr.: 33865825

Autorenporträt

Allan Gotthelf is Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers University, and Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey. From 2003 to 2012 he was Visiting Professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a junior fellow at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in 1979-80 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2001. Since 1985 he has been life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has published widely on Aristotle's biological works, and his work on Aristotle has recently been celebrated by some of the foremost scholars of Aristotle's in Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honour of Allan Gotthelf (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* PART I: Teleology, Irreducibility, and the Generation of Animals (GA)
* 1: Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality
* 2: The Place of the Good in Aristotle's Natural Teleology
* 3: Understanding Aristotle's Teleology
* 4: Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle's Generation of Animals
II.6
* 5: co-authored with Mariska Leunissen: 'What's Teleology Got to Do
with It?'--A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Generation of Animals V
* 6: Teleology and Spontaneous Generation in Aristotle: A Discussion
* PART II: First Principles and Explanatory Structure in the Parts of
Animals (PA)
* 7: First Principles in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
* 8: The Elephant's Nose: Further Reflections on the Axiomatic
Structure of Biological Explanation in Aristotle
* 9: Division and Explanation in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
* PART III: Metaphysical Themes in PA and GA
* 10: Notes towards a Study of Substance and Essence in Aristotle's
Parts of Animals II-IV
* 11: A Biological Provenance: Reflections on Montgomery Furth's
Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics
* PART IV: Starting a Science: Theoretical Aims of the History of
Animals (HA)
* 12: Data-Organization, Classification, and Kinds: The Place of the
History of Animals in Aristotle's Biological Enterprise
* 13: HA I.6 490b7-491a6: Aristotle's megista genê
* 14: Historiae I: Plantarum et Animalium
* PART V: Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist
* 15: Darwin on Aristotle
* Coda: Aristotle as Scientist: A Proper Verdict
* References
* Index Locorum
* Index of Names
* Index of Subjects