Aristotle on Nature and Living Things
Author | : David M. Balme |
Publisher | : Mathesis Publications |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David M. Balme |
Publisher | : Mathesis Publications |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David M. Balme |
Publisher | : Mathesis Publications |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780935225013 |
Author | : Andrea Falcon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139446916 |
Andrea Falcon's work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical enterprise. In this concise exploration of the significance of the celestial world for Aristotle's science of nature, Falcon investigates the source of discontinuity between celestial and sublunary natures and argues that the conviction that the natural world exhibits unity without uniformity is the ultimate reason for Aristotle's claim that the heavens are made of a special body, unique to them. This book presents Aristotle as a totally engaged, systematic investigator whose ultimate concern was to integrate his distinct investigations into a coherent interpretation of the world we live in, all the while mindful of human limitations to what can be known. Falcon reads in Aristotle the ambition of an extraordinarily curious mind and the confidence that that ambition has been largely fulfilled.
Author | : Allan Gotthelf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1987-10-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521310918 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521659765 |
In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.
Author | : S. Marc Cohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-01-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521533133 |
Explores Aristotle's concept of nature and its role in scientific explanation.
Author | : David Ebrey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110705513X |
This collection of groundbreaking new essays show how Aristotle's natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.
Author | : Mariska Leunissen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139490419 |
In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in birds for the sake of flying). Whereas much of recent scholarship has focused on uncovering the (meta-)physical underpinnings of Aristotle's teleology and its contrasts with his notions of chance and necessity, this book examines Aristotle's use of the theory of natural teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena. Close analyses of Aristotle's natural treatises and his Posterior Analytics show what methods are used for the discovery of functions or ends that figure in teleological explanations, how these explanations are structured, and how well they work in making sense of phenomena. The book will be valuable for all who are interested in Aristotle's natural science, his philosophy of science, and his biology.
Author | : Jason A. Tipton |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319014218 |
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 | : Claudia Zatta |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2022-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000533891 |
With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live. The volume explores Aristotle’s conception of animals through a discussion of his ad hoc methodology to study them, including the pertinence of the soul to such a study, and the rise of zoology as a branch of natural philosophy. For Aristotle, animal life stems from the body in the space of existence and revolves around sensation, which is entwined with pleasure, pain, and desire. Lack of human reason is irrelevant to an understanding of the richness of animal life and cognition. In sum, the reader will acquire knowledge of the "animal as such," which lay at the core of Aristotle’s agenda and required a study of its own, separate from plants and the elements. This book is intended for students of the history of science, ancient biology, and philosophy and all those who, from different fields, are interested in animal studies and the human-animal relation.