Aristotle''s Philosophy of Biology - Studies in the Origins of Life Science

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

Product details

• Authors: James G. Lennox, James G. (University of Pittsburgh) Lennox
• Assisted by: Michael Ruse (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2000
• EAN: 9780521659765
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65976-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)