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Aristotle on Teleology
Häftad, 2008
960 kr
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Monte Johnson examines the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Does it exclude or obviate mechanism, determinism, or materialism? Is it focused on the good of individual organisms, or is god or man the ultimate …
Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Contradiction and Dialectic
Inbunden, 1996
2547 kr
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Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, basing …
Order in Multiplicity
Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Inbunden, 1999
2370 kr
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Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homonymy of many central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being common to a single general concept. His preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to almost every subject that he considers, and it …
Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
Inbunden, 2000
1390 kr
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David Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. These interconnected views are central to Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. They are also highly relevant to current philosophical debates. Charles aims, …
Aristotle on the Apparent Good
Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire
Av Jessica Moss
Häftad, 2014
748 kr
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Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us--a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness motivate desire and action? No …
Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric
Av Jamie Dow
Inbunden, 2015
1536 kr
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For Aristotle, arousing the passions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction. On that basis a skill in doing so can be something valuable, an appropriate constituent of the kind of expertise in rhetoric that deserves to be cultivated and given expression in a …
Aristotle and the Eleatic One
Inbunden, 2019
1591 kr
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In this book Timothy Clarke examines Aristotle's response to Eleatic monism, the theory of Parmenides of Elea and his followers that reality is 'one'. Clarke argues that Aristotle interprets the Eleatics as thoroughgoing monists, for whom the pluralistic, changing world of the senses is a mere …
Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning
The Posterior Analytics
Inbunden, 2016
1577 kr
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'All teaching and all intellectual learning come to be from pre-existing knowledge.' So begins Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. David Bronstein sheds new light on this challenging text by arguing that it is …
The Powers of Aristotle's Soul
Häftad, 2015
666 kr
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Aristotle is considered by many to be the founder of 'faculty psychology'--the attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena by reference to a few inborn capacities. In The Powers of Aristotle's Soul, Thomas Kjeller Johansen investigates his main work on psychology, the De Anima, from …
Aristotle's Theory of Bodies
Inbunden, 2018
1162 kr
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Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. …
Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good
Inbunden, 2020
1205 kr
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Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development. Despite shame's bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the proto-virtue of those learning to be good, …
Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life
Inbunden, 2019
1191 kr
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Aristotle on the Sources of the Ethical Life challenges the common belief that Aristotle's ethics is founded on an appeal to human nature, an appeal that is thought to be intended to provide both substantive ethical advice and justification for the demands of ethics. Sylvia Berryman argues that …
The Undivided Self
Aristotle and the 'Mind-Body Problem'
Inbunden, 2021
1404 kr
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Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The aim of this book is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical …
Aristotle on What Emotions Are
Inbunden, 2024
2437 kr
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This book provides the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks occurrent emotions are and points to some philosophical merits of his account. It is argued that he holds that emotions are representational pleasures or distresses that are formed in response to other intentional …
The Undivided Self
Aristotle and the 'Mind-Body Problem'
Häftad, 2023
392 kr
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Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The Undivided Self aims to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical …
Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus
Inbunden, 2026
1319 kr
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Why should we study philosophy? Is it too abstract or too remote from real life to be of any value? Aristotle's Defence of Philosophy in the Protrepticus examines Aristotle's response to such questions. Based on an examination of the fragments of his Protrepticus, Ronja Hildebrandt argues that …
Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
Av Klaus Corcilius, Andrea Falcon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2265 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought offers a novel reading of one of the most …
Doing and Being
An Interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta
Inbunden, 2009
2673 kr
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Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of …
Time for Aristotle
Physics IV. 10-14
Av Ursula Coope
Inbunden, 2005
2306 kr
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What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion.Aristotle claims that time is not a …
On Location
Aristotle's Concept of Place
Inbunden, 2002
2490 kr
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On Location is the first book in English exclusively devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science--Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. The central question which Aristotle aims to answer is: What is it for something to be somewhere? Ben Morison examines …
Order in Multiplicity
Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Häftad, 2002
1170 kr
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Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homonymy of many central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being common to a single general concept. His preoccupation with homonymy influences his approach to almost every subject that he considers, and it …
Aristotle's Theory of Substance
The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
Häftad, 2002
1481 kr
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Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent. The two main sources for these views are the Categories and the central books of the Metaphysics, particularly book Zeta. In the early theory of the Categories the basic entities of the world are concrete …
Aristotle's De Interpretatione
Contradiction and Dialectic
Häftad, 2002
1598 kr
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Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, basing …
Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
Häftad, 2002
1078 kr
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David Charles presents a major study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, and necessity. Aristotle's discussions of these interconnected topics are central to his account of thought and language, his metaphysics, and his study of biology. They are also of continuing philosophical importance, …
Aristotle on the Common Sense
Inbunden, 2007
2490 kr
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Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly and effortlessly perform a number of complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include, for example, perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, …
Aristotle on Teleology
Inbunden, 2005
3177 kr
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Monte Johnson examines one of the most controversial aspects of Aristiotle's natural philosophy: his teleology. Is teleology about causation or explanation? Does it exclude or obviate mechanism, determinism, or materialism? Is it focused on the good of individual organisms, or is god or man the …
Space, Time, Matter, and Form
Essays on Aristotle's Physics
Inbunden, 2006
2077 kr
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Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time. The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of …
Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology
Inbunden, 2012
2444 kr
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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 …
Time for Aristotle
Physics IV. 10-14
Av Ursula Coope
Häftad, 2008
911 kr
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What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion.Aristotle claims that time is not a …
