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Numéro d'OCLC
43694261
Auteur
Lennox, James G.
Titre
Aristotle's philosophy of biology : studies in the origins of life science
Éditeur
Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description
xxiii, 321 pages :illustrations ;
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index.
Résumé
(Publisher-supplied data) In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.
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Table of contents
Sujet
880-01 Aristotle.
Aristotle.
Aristote.
Biology Philosophy.
Biology History.
Biology.
Philosophy.
Biology Philosophy.
Biology History.
Biologie Philosophie.
Biologie Histoire.
Biologie.
Philosophie.
ISBN
0521650275
9780521650274
0521659760
9780521659765