Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning The Posterior Analytics

Informationen zum Autor David Bronstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He was educated in Canada and previously taught at Boston University and the University of Oxford. He is the author of several articles on Aristotle's epistemology and philosophy of science. Klappentext David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest¿knowledge and learning¿and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text. Zusammenfassung David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest--knowledge and learning--and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction General Introduction 1: Meno's Paradox and the Prior Knowledge Requirement Part I: Learning by Demonstration 2: Learning by Demonstration 3: Belonging 'In Itself' and Aristotle's Theory of Demonstration 4: Scientific Knowledge and Demonstration Part II: Learning by Definition 5: Learning by Definition: Introduction 6: Inquiry in APo 2.1 7: Inquiry in APo 2.2 8: The Socratic Picture of the Order of Inquiry 9: Cause, Essence, and Definition 10: Discovering Causally Complex Essences: APo 2.8 11: Subject-Kinds and their Existence 12: Discovering Causally Simple Essences: APo 2.13 Part III: Learning by Induction 13: The Origin and Aim of APo 2.19 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David (Georgetown University) Bronstein, Bronstein David, David Bronstein
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre Relié
• Date de parution: 07.04.2016
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires
• EAN: 9780198724902
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872490-2
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Thème: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series; Oxford Aristotle Studies; Oxford Aristotle Studies Series; Oxford Aristotle Studies
• Catégories: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500