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Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Anthony Preus |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1975 |
File | : 424 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UCR:31210001756509 |
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Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Anthony Preus |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1975 |
File | : 424 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UCR:31210001756509 |
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.
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : James G. Lennox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release | : 2001 |
File | : 350 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0521659760 |
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.
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Jason A. Tipton |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
File | : 213 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9783319014210 |
Our previous book, About Life, concerned modern biology. We used our present-day understanding of cells to ‘define’ the living state, providing a basis for exploring several general-interest topics: the origin of life, extraterrestrial life, intelligence, and the possibility that humans are unique. The ideas we proposed in About Life were intended as starting-points for debate – we did not claim them as ‘truth’ – but the information on which they were based is currently accepted as ‘scientific fact’. What does that mean? What is ‘scientific fact’ and why is it accepted? What is science – and is biology like other sciences such as physics (except in subject m- ter)? The book you are now reading investigates these questions – and some related ones. Like About Life, it may particularly interest a reader who wishes to change career to biology and its related subdisciplines. In line with a recommendation by the British Association for the Advancement of Science – that the public should be given fuller information about the nature of science – we present the concepts underpinning biology and a survey of its historical and philosophical basis.
Genre | : Science |
Author | : Paul S. Agutter |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Release | : 2008-11-05 |
File | : 270 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781402088667 |
This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main biological treatises. Starting with his own ground-breaking study of Aristotle's natural teleology and its illuminating relationship with the Generation of Animals, Gotthelf proceeds to the axiomatic structure of biological explanation (and the first principles such explanation proceeds from) in the Parts of Animals. After an exploration of the implications of these two treatises for our understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, Gotthelf examines important aspects of the method by which Aristotle organizes his data in the History of Animals to make possible such a systematic, explanatory study of animals, offering a new view of the place of classification in that enterprise. In a concluding section on 'Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist', Gotthelf explores the basis of Charles Darwin's great praise of Aristotle and, in the first printing of a lecture delivered worldwide, provides an overview of Aristotle as a philosophically-oriented scientist, and 'a proper verdict' on his greatness as scientist.
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Allan Gotthelf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
File | : 464 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780191629167 |
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.
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Allan Gotthelf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release | : 1987-10-22 |
File | : 480 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0521310911 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : David M. Balme |
Publisher | : Mathesis Publications |
Release | : 1985 |
File | : 456 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UOM:39015011809715 |
Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Genre | : History |
Author | : S. M. Connell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
File | : 377 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781107197732 |
Genre | : SCIENCE |
Author | : David Ebrey |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 2015 |
File | : 261 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 131631927X |
Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.
Genre | : Philosophy |
Author | : Andrea Falcon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
File | : 172 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0521854393 |