Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199287956
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 241x163x30 mm
- Weight 838 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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 reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science.
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This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings.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.
For scholars approaching Aristotle's biological treatises for the first time, the value of this book is found in the comprehensive way of understanding Aristotle's work that emerges from the collection of Gotthelf's best contributions. For scholars already familiar with Gotthelf's work, the value comes in the chapters published for the first time and from the fact that this work collects together the various parts of Gotthelf's interpretation in the way Gotthelf himself thinks these parts fit together. That the book includes an impressive list of references and indexes (locorum, names, and subjects) further increases its value as a reference for those engaging with Aristotleâs biological treatises.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Teleology, Irreducibility, and the Generation of Animals (GA)
Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality
The Place of the Good in Aristotle's Natural Teleology
Understanding Aristotle's Teleology
Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle's Generation of Animals II.6
'What's Teleology Got to Do with It?'--A Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Generation of Animals V
Teleology and Spontaneous Generation in Aristotle: A Discussion
PART II: First Principles and Explanatory Structure in the Parts of Animals (PA)
First Principles in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
The Elephant's Nose: Further Reflections on the Axiomatic Structure of Biological Explanation in Aristotle
Division and Explanation in Aristotle's Parts of Animals
PART III: Metaphysical Themes in PA and GA
Notes towards a Study of Substance and Essence in Aristotle's Parts of Animals II-IV
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)
Data-Organization, Classification, and Kinds: The Place of the History of Animals in Aristotle's Biological Enterprise
HA I.6 490b7-491a6: Aristotle's megista genê
Historiae I: Plantarum et Animalium
PART V: Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist
Darwin on Aristotle
Coda: Aristotle as Scientist: A Proper Verdict
References
Index Locorum
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
