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This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf--one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main biological treatises. Starting with his own ground-breaking study of Aristotle's natural teleology and its illuminating relationship with the __Generation of Animals__, Gotthelf proceeds to the axiomatic structure of biological explanation (and the first principles such explanation proceeds from) in the __Parts of Animals__. After an exploration of the implications of these two treatises for our understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, Gotthelf examines important aspects of the method by which Aristotle organizes his data in the __History of Animals__ to make possible such a systematic, explanatory study of animals, offering a new view of the place of classification in that enterprise. In a concluding section on 'Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist', Gotthelf explores the basis of Charles Darwin's great praise of Aristotle and, in the first printing of a lecture delivered worldwide, provides an overview of Aristotle as a

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Author

Allan Gotthelf

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191738296

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History