Aristotle's philosophy of biology studies in the origins of life science
In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own speci...
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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Table of Contents:
- rt I. 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 Part II. Matter, Form and Kind: Introduction 6. Are Aristotelian species eternal? 7. Kinds, forms of kinds, and the more and less in Aristotle's biology 8. Material and formal natures in Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium 9. Nature does nothing in vain... Part III. 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.
