The Cambridge companion to Aristotle's biology

Weitere Verfasser: Connell, Sophia M. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Schriftenreihe: Cambridge companions
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Parallelausgabe: ISSN: 1-107-19773-2
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Sophia M. Connell
  • Biology and theology in Aristotle's theoretical and practical sciences / Monte Ransome Johnson
  • The presocratics, Plato, and Aristotle's biology / Karel Thein
  • Aristotle's biology and early medicine / Hynek Bartos̆
  • Empiricism and hearsay in Aristotle's zoological collection of facts / Mariska Leunissen
  • Parts of animals book I on methods of inquiry / Devin Henry
  • Teleological perspectives in Aristotle's biology / Jessica Gelber
  • Aristotle's biological metaphysics / Charlotte Witt
  • Life-cycles and the actions of nutritive soul in Aristotle / R. A. H. King
  • Aristotle on animal generation and hereditary resemblance / Sophia M. Connell
  • The science of perception in Aristotle / Cynthia Freeland
  • Aristotle's theory of animal agency and the problem of self-motion / Klaus Corcilius
  • Animal cognition in Aristotle / Sophia M. Connell
  • Elements of biology in Aristotle's political science / Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
  • The early reception of Aristotle's biology / Myrto Hatzimichali
  • The reception of Aristotle's biology in late antiquity and beyond / Andrea Falcon
  • Aristotelian teleology and philosophy of biology in the Darwinian era / David Depew
  • Aristotle and contemporary biology / Denis Walsh
  • Afterword : philosophical issues in Aristotle's biology : its coming-to-be and its being / James G. Lennox.