LEADER 03793nam 2200685 450 001 9910456544603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7099-1 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442670990 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001438 035 $a(EBL)4671198 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000375357 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11262902 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000375357 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10447957 035 $a(PQKB)10156304 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600685 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671198 035 $a(DE-B1597)464185 035 $a(OCoLC)1013940890 035 $a(OCoLC)944178468 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442670990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256918 035 $a(OCoLC)244768030 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001438 100 $a20160922h20002000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAristotle's theory of the unity of science /$fMalcolm Wilson 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2000. 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (286 p.) 225 0 $aPhoenix Supplementary Volumes ;$v38 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8020-4796-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Genus, Abstraction, and Commensurability -- $t2. Analogy in Aristotle's Biology -- $t3. Analogy and Demonstration -- $t4. The Structure of Focality -- $t5. Metaphysical Focality -- $t6. Mixed Uses of Analogy and Focality -- $t7. Cumulation -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex Locorum -- $tGeneral Index -- $tBackmatter 330 $aAristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation.Wilson appeals to these systematic connections in order to reconcile Aristotle's narrow theory of the subject-genus (described in the Posterior Analytics in terms of essential definitional connections among terms) with the more expansive conception found in Aristotle's scientific practice. These connections, all variations on the notion of abstraction, allow for the more expansive subject-genus, and in turn are based on concepts fundamental to the Posterior Analytics. Wilson thus treats the connections in their relation to Aristotle's theory of science and shows how they arise from his doctrine of abstraction. The effect of the argument is to place the connections, which are traditionally viewed as marginal, at the centre of Aristotle's theory of science.The scholarly work of the last decade has argued that the Posterior Analytics is essential for an understanding of Aristotle's scientific practice. Wilson's book, while grounded in this research, extends its discoveries to the problems of the conditions for the unity of scientific disciplines. 410 0$aPhoenix.$pSupplementary volume ;$v38. 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aScience$xMethodology 606 $aScience, Ancient 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aScience$xMethodology. 615 0$aScience, Ancient. 676 $a185 700 $aWilson$b Malcolm$f1961-$01027889 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456544603321 996 $aAristotle's theory of the unity of science$92478127 997 $aUNINA