03853nam 2200757 450 991078065740332120230912155959.01-4426-7099-110.3138/9781442670990(CKB)2430000000001438(EBL)4671198(SSID)ssj0000375357(PQKBManifestationID)11262902(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375357(PQKBWorkID)10447957(PQKB)10156304(CaBNvSL)thg00600685 (DE-B1597)464185(OCoLC)1013940890(OCoLC)944178468(DE-B1597)9781442670990(Au-PeEL)EBL4671198(CaPaEBR)ebr11256918(OCoLC)244768030(OCoLC)1379760029(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104429(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/99f9b7(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418048(MiAaPQ)EBC4671198(MiAaPQ)EBC3255381(EXLCZ)99243000000000143820160922h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAristotle's theory of the unity of science /Malcolm WilsonToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (286 p.)Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ;38Description based upon print version of record.0-8020-4796-3 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Genus, Abstraction, and Commensurability -- Analogy in Aristotle's Biology -- Analogy and Demonstration -- The Structure of Focality -- Metaphysical Focality -- Mixed Uses of Analogy and Focality -- Cumulation."Aristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation." "Wilson appeals to these systematic connections in order to reconcile Aristotle's narrow theory of the subject-genus (described in the Posterior Analytics in terms of essential definitional connections among terms) with the more expansive conception found in Aristotle's scientific practice. These connections, all variations on the notion of abstraction, allow for the more expansive subject-genus, and in turn are based on concepts fundamental to the Posterior Analytics. Wilson thus treats the connections in their relation to Aristotle's theory of science and shows how they arise from his doctrine of abstraction. The effect of the argument is to place the connections, which are traditionally viewed as marginal, at the centre of Aristotle's theory of science." "The scholarly work of the last decade has argued that the Posterior Analytics is essential for an understanding of Aristotle's scientific practice. Wilson's book, while grounded in this research, extends its discoveries to the problems of the conditions for the unity of scientific disciplines."--Jacket.Phoenix.Supplementary volume ;38.SciencePhilosophyScienceMethodologyScience, AncientLivres numeriques.e-books.Electronic books. SciencePhilosophy.ScienceMethodology.Science, Ancient.185Wilson Malcolm1961-1527289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780657403321Aristotle's theory of the unity of science3771855UNINA