Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology

ISBN: 9780521310918 出版年：1987 页码：482 Allan Gotthelf James G Lennox Cambridge University Press

Preface Introduction Part I. Biology and Philosophy: An Overview: Introduction 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 Part II. Definition and Demonstration: Theory and Practice: Introduction 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 in Aristotle's Parts of Animals Allan Gotthelf Part III. Teleology and Necessity in Nature: Introduction 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 Part IV. Metaphysical Themes: Introduction 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 Index locorum General index.