Aristotle's Generation of Animals (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Guide
Redaktion: Falcon, Andrea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Generation of Animals is one of Aristotle's most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilization, embryogenesis, and organogenesis. In this book, international experts present thirteen original essays providing a philosophically and historically informed introduction to this important work. They shed light on the unity and structure of the Generation of Animals, the main theses that Aristotle defends in the work, and the method of inquiry he adopts. They also open up new avenues of exploration of this difficult and still largely unexplored work. The volume will be essential for scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as of the history and philosophy of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108624923
• Artikelnr.: 50402454

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Aristotle's philosophy and the Generation of Animals Andrea
Falcon and David Lefebvre; Part I. The Unity and Structure of Aristotle's
Generation of Animals: 1. 'One long argument?' The unity of Aristotle's
Generation of Animals Allan Gotthelf and Andrea Falcon; 2. Parts and
generation: the prologue to the Generation of Animals and the structure of
the treatise David Lefebvre; 3. Order and method in Aristotle's Generation
of Animals 2 Mariska Leunissen; Part II. The Principles of Animal
Generation Reconsidered: 4. What is Aristotle's Generation of Animals
about? Pierre Pellegrin; 5. Aristotle on epigenesis: two senses of
epigenesis Devin Henry; 6. A latent difficulty in Aristotle's theory of
semen: the homogeneous nature of semen and the role of the frothy bubble
Marwan Rashed; 7. Function and instrument: toward a new criterion of the
scale of being in Aristotle's Generation of Animals Cristina Cerami; Part
III. Hybrids, Male and Female, Particular Forms, and Monsters: 8. Hybridity
and sterility in Aristotle's Generation of Animals Jocelyn Groisard; 9.
Females in Aristotle's embryology Jessica Gelber; 10. Something(s) in the
way(s) he moves: reconsidering the embryological argument for particular
forms in Aristotle Gregory Salmieri; 11. Aristotle's explanations of
monstrous births and deformities in Generation of Animals 4.4 Sophia
Connell; Part IV. Methodology in Aristotle's Generation of Animals: 12. The
search for principles in Aristotle: Posterior Analytics 2 and Generation of
Animals 1 Robert Bolton; 13. Aristotle, dissection, and generation:
experience, expertise and the practices of knowing James G. Lennox.