Architecture of the Science of Living Beings - Aristotle and Theophrastus on Animals and Plants

"The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus' achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their investigation of life into separate studies of animals and plants at a time when our reliance on these categories is being challenged"--

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Conventions; Tables; Transliterations; Introduction; 1. Aristotle's de anima and the study of perishable living beings; 2. Aristotle's parva naturalia and the study of animals and everything that has life; 3. Pre-explanatory and explanatory strategies in aristotle's study of animals; 4. Theophrastus' history of plants i: the transition from the study of animals to the study of plants; 5. Theophrastus on the generation of plants; 6. The invention of biology?; Appendix A - Aristotle on plants; Appendix B- Theophrastus on animals; Appendix C- [Aristotle], on plants; References; General Index; Index of Passages.

About the author

ANDREA FALCON is Professor Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal) and currently lecturing at the University of Milan). He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many books, with his two most recent co-edited books on Aristotle being: Aristotle's De incessu animalium (Cambridge, 2021) and Aristotle's Generation and Corruption II (Cambridge, 2022).

Summary

The first book-length treatment of Aristotle and Theophrastus' achievements in their separate but coordinated studies of animals and plants. It explores their original motivations for articulating their investigation of life into separate studies of animals and plants at a time when our reliance on these categories is being challenged. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Falcon, Andrea (Concordia University Falcon, Falcon Andrea
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009426343
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942634-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History of Science, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Classical style, BCE to c 500 CE, For higher / tertiary / university education, 4th century, c 399 to c 300 BCE, 3rd century, c 299 to c 200 BCE