Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 440 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford Aristotle studies |
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Oxford Aristotle studies.
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Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Teleology, Irreducibility, and the Generation of Animals (GA) -- 1. Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality -- Postscript 1986 -- 2. The Place of the Good in Aristotle's Natural Teleology -- 3. Understanding Aristotle's Teleology -- 4. Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle's Generation of Animals II. 6 -- 5. 'What's Teleology Got to Do with It?': A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Generation of Animals V (co-authored with Mariska Leunissen) -- 6. Teleology and Spontaneous Generation in Aristotle: A Discussion -- Part II. First Principles and Explanatory Structure in the Parts of Animals (PA) -- 7. First Principles in Aristotle's Parts of Animals -- 8. The Elephant's Nose: Further Reflections on the Axiomatic Structure of Biological Explanation in Aristotle -- 9. Division and Explanation in Aristotle's Parts of Animals -- Part III. Metaphysical Themes in PA and GA -- 10. Notes towards a Study of Substance and Essence in Aristotle's Parts of Animals II-IV -- 11. A Biological Provenance: Reflections on Montgomery Furth's Substance, Form and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics -- Part IV. Starting a Science: Theoretical Aims of the History of Animals (HA) -- 12. Data-Organization, Classification, and Kinds: The Place of the History of Animals in Aristotle's Biological Enterprise -- Appendix: A case for the ordering of the books of HA VII-IX and a question about the biological study of man that arises therefrom (co-authored with Pieter Beullens) -- 13. History of Animals I.6 490b7-491a6: Aristotle's megista genē -- 14. Historiae I: Plantarum et Animalium -- Part V. Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist -- 15. Darwin on Aristotle -- CODA: Aristotle as Scientist: A Proper Verdict (with emphasis on his biological works) -- References -- Index Locorum -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D |
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E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W |
Summary |
This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the place of classification in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Aristotle
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SUBJECT |
Aristotle fast |
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Biology -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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FICTION -- General.
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Biology -- Philosophy
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Genre/Form |
Early works
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0191629162 |
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9780191629167 |
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9780191738296 |
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0191738298 |
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9786613675729 |
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6613675725 |
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1280698764 |
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9781280698767 |
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