Aristotle on Inquiry - Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms

Informationen zum Autor James G. Lennox is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published widely on the history and philosophy of biology, with a focus on Aristotle, William Harvey, Charles Darwin and Darwinism. His books include Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology (Cambridge, 2001) and a translation, with commentary, of Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals (2001) in the Clarendon Aristotle Series. Klappentext Examines how Aristotle's philosophical reflections on scientific knowledge impact his actual scientific inquiries, arguing that he believes in a general, question-guided framework applicable to all scientific inquiries and domain-specific norms reflecting differences in the target of inquiry and in the means of observation available to researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I. Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms: 1. The Goal of Knowledge and Norms of Inquiry; 2. An Erotetic Framework: The Posterior Analytics on Inquiry; 3. A Discourse on ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿; 4. Natural Science: Many Inquiries, One Science; II. Natural Inquiries: Autonomy and Integration: 5. The ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ of Nature; 6. The ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ of Animals; 7. The Soul: One Subject, Many Methods?; 8. The Order of Inquiry I: Right and Left in Cosmology and Zoology; 9. The Order of Inquiry II: The Debt of Aristotle's Zoology to Meteorology IV; 10. Framework Norms meet Domain Specific Norms: Aristotle on Respiration.

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• Authors: James G Lennox, James G. Lennox, James G. (University of Pittsburgh) Lennox, Lennox James G.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781009382557
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938255-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History, History of Ideas, HISTORY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500