|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910484665103321 |
|
|
Autore |
Tipton Jason A |
|
|
Titolo |
Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals / / by Jason A. Tipton |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed. 2014.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (213 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, , 0929-6425 ; ; 26 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Philosophy |
Biology—Philosophy |
History of Philosophy |
Philosophy of Biology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Aristotle’s Philosophy and Biology: The biological phenomena.- Chapter 2: The Problem of Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Recognizing Sameness and Otherness in Animals -- Chapter 4: The Examination of the Animate in Light of the Inanimate: or, The Argument for the Autonomy of the Zoological Inquiry -- Chapter 5: Finding Fault with Nature -- Chapter 6: The Division and Combination of Labor -- Bibliography - Editions, Translations and Commentaries -- Index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It takes its bearings from the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. This analysis raises the question of how easy it is to clearly disentangle what some might describe as the "merely" biological from the philosophical. This book explores the notion and consequences of describing the activity in which Aristotle is engaged as philosophical biology. Do readers of Aristotle have in mind organisms like sea squirts (ascidians) or sea cucumbers (holuthurians) when trying to understand Aristotle's argument regarding plant-like animals? Do we need the phenomena in front of us to understand the terms of the philosophical argument in a richer way? The discussion of plant-like |
|
|
|
|