Aristotle on Artifacts
Aristotle on Artifacts

Author: Errol G. Katayama

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780791443187

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Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.

One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Author: Edward C. Halper

Publisher: Parmenides Publishing

Published: 2009-01-28

Total Pages: 635

ISBN-13: 193097258X

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In this first volume of One and Many, Halper argues that books Alpha to Delta should be read as a coherent treatment, within the larger whole of the Metaphysics, which addresses the problem of how there can be a single science of metaphysics. Halper shows that Aristotle poses and pursues the problem of the existence of metaphysics as a version of the problem of the one and the many, which he resolves by introducing doctrines of being and substance.

Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy
Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy

Author: Hiro Hirai

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-12-23

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9004218726

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Inspired by the ideas contained in the newly recovered ancient sources, Renaissance humanists questioned the traditional teachings of universities. Humanistically trained physicians, called “medical humanists,” were particularly active in the field of natural philosophy, where alternative approaches were launched and tested. Their intellectual outcome contributed to the reorientation of philosophy toward natural questions, which were to become crucial in the seventeenth century. This volume explores six medical humanists of diverse geographical and confessional origins (Leoniceno, Fernel, Schegk, Gemma, Liceti and Sennert) and their debates on matter, life and the soul. The study of these debates sheds new light on the contributions of humanist culture to the evolution of early modern natural philosophy

The Revolutions of Wisdom
The Revolutions of Wisdom

Author: G. E. R. Lloyd

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0520067428

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G.E.R. Lloyd's wide-ranging and historical study of the development of Greek science is a valuable contribution to current debates in the philosophy of language, on the analysis of scientific revolutions, and the rationality of science.

Aristotle's De motu animalium
Aristotle's De motu animalium

Author: Christof Rapp

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-10-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0192572490

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The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned scholars of ancient philosophy offer a running commentary on Aristotle's De motu animalium. It is in this text, one of his most intriguing works, that Aristotle sets out the general principles of animal locomotion. A philological and a philosophical introduction sketch the current state of research on this treatise, situating current thought in the context of three decades of scholarly debates. The nine contributed essays together comment on each chapter of the Aristotelian text, discussing in detail the philosophical issues that are raised across the different sections of the text. Comprehensive analyses of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, make this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle. The present volume also includes a newly reconstructed Greek text with a facing English translation by Benjamin Morison.

Aristotle on Prescription
Aristotle on Prescription

Author: Francesca Alesse

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-10-22

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9004385398

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The focus of Aristotle on Prescription is Aristotle’s reflections on rule-making. It is widely believed that Aristotle was only concerned with decision-making, understood as a deliberative process enabling a person to arrive at particular, contingent decisions. However, rule-making is fundamental to Aristotle’s ethical texts. Establishing rules means indicating patterns for action that are sufficiently specific to meet situational difficulties and sufficiently constant in time to provide us with a code of behaviour to be used in similar situations. When we prescribe rules, we demonstrate the ability to direct not only our own life but also other people’s lives. Alesse’s book explores Aristotle’s deep reflections on the nature and functions of prescription, and on the relationship between rules and individual decisions.

Aristotle's Topics
Aristotle's Topics

Author: Paul Slomkowski

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9004320997

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This work deals with Aristotle's Topics, a textbook on how to argue successfully in a debate organised in a certain way. The origins of the three branches of logic can be found here: logic of propositions, of predicates and of relations. Having dealt with the structure of the dialectical debates and the theory of the predicables, the central notion of the topos is analysed. Topoi are principles of arguments designed to help a disputant refute his opponent and function as hypotheses in hypothetical syllogisms, the main form of argument in the Topics. Traces of the crystallization of their theory can be found in the Topics and Analytics. The author analyses a selection of topoi including those according to which categorical and relational syllogisms are constructed.