Aristotle's philosophy of biology : studies in the origins of life science / James G. Lennox.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2001.
Serie:
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. Introduction. Pt. 1. Inquiry and explanation: Introduction. 1. Divide and explain: the Posterior analytics in practice 2. Between data and demonstration: the analytics and the Historia animalium 3. Aristotelian problems 4. Putting philosophy of science to the test: the case of Aristotle's biology 5. The disappearance of Aristotle's biology: a hellenistic mystery. Pt. 2. Matter, form and kind: Introduction. 6. Are Aristotelian species eternal? 7. Kinds, forms of kinds and the more and the less in Aristotle's biology 8. Material and formal natures in Aristotle's De partibus animalium 9. Nature does nothing in vain.... Pt. 3. Teleological explanation: Introduction. 10. Teleology, chance and Aristotle's theory of spontaneous generation 11. Aristotle on chance 12. Theophrastus on the limits of teleology 13. Plato's unnatural teleology. Works cited. Index
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