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Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology (Hardcover)
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Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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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of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf-one of the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.
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