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Philosophical issues in Aristotle's biology /

0521310911

052132582X

9780521310918

9780521325820

b528328

Philosophical issues in Aristotle's biology /

[Book]

edited by Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1987

xiii, 462 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes indexes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-430)

[Pt.] I. Biology and philosophy : an overview -- 1. The place of biology in Aristotle's philosophy / D.M. Balme -- 2. Aristotle's biological universe : an overview / Montgomery Furth -- 3. Empirical research in Aristotle's biology / G.E.R. Lloyd -- [Pt.] II. Definition and demonstration : theory and practice -- 4. Aristotle's use of division and differentiae / D.M. Balme -- 5. Divide and explain : the 'Posterior analytics' in practice / James G. Lennox -- 6. Definition and scientific method in Aristotle's 'Posterior analytics' and 'Generation of animals' / Robert Bolton -- 7. First principles of Aristotle's 'Parts of animals' / Allan Gotthelf -- [Pt.] III. Teleology and necessity in nature -- 8. Aristotle's conception of final causality / Allan Gotthelf -- 9. Hypothetical necessity and natural teleology / John M. Cooper -- 10. Teleology and necessity / D.M. Balme -- [Pt.] IV. Metaphysical themes -- 11. Aristotle's biology was not essentialist / D.M. Balme -- 12. Logical difference and biological difference : the unity of Aristotle's thought / Pierre Pellegrin -- 13. Kinds, forms of kinds, and the more and the less in Aristotle's biology / James G. Lennox -- 14. Animals and other beings in Aristotle / L.A. Kosman -- 15. Aristotle on bodies, matter, and potentiality / Cynthia A. Freeland -- 16. Aristotle on the place of mind in nature / William Charlton

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Aristotle

Biology-- Philosophy

Biology-- Philosophy-- History

Gotthelf, Allan,1942-2013

Lennox, James G

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