Allan Gotthelf

Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology

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This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-928795-6
EAN: 9780199287956
Produktnummer: 22676618
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.3 cm 839 g
Gewicht: 839

Über den Autor

Allan Gotthelf is Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers University, and Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the College of New Jersey. From 2003 to 2012 he was Visiting Professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a junior fellow at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in 1979-80 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2001. Since 1985 hehas been life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has published widely on Aristotle's biological works, and his work on Aristotle has recently been celebrated by some of the foremost scholars of Aristotle's in Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honour of Allan Gotthelf (2010).