Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology write by James G. Lennox. This book was released on 2001. Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology
Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology write by Allan Gotthelf. This book was released on 1987-10-22. Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology write by S. M. Connell. This book was released on 2021-05-27. The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology write by Allan Gotthelf. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals write by Jason A. Tipton. This book was released on 2013-10-21. Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
