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In Aristotle's Teleological View Of The World, Natural Things Come To Be And Are Present For The Sake Of Some Function Or End (for Example, Wings Are Present In Birds For The Sake Of Flying). Whereas Much Of Recent Scholarship Has Focused On Uncovering The (meta-)physical Underpinnings Of Aristotle's Teleology And Its Contrasts With His Notions Of Chance And Necessity, This Book Examines Aristotle's Use Of The Theory Of Natural Teleology In Producing Explanations Of Natural Phenomena. Close Analyses Of Aristotle's Natural Treatises And His Posterior Analytics Show What Methods Are Used For The Discovery Of Functions Or Ends That Figure In Teleological Explanations, How These Explanations Are Structured, And How Well They Work In Making Sense Of Phenomena. The Book Will Be Valuable For All Who Are Interested In Aristotle's Natural Science, His Philosophy Of Science, And His Biology-- Why Do Organisms Reproduce? Why Do Birds Have Wings? Why Do Neither Snakes Nor Stars Have Feet? And Why Do Most Of The Hoofed Life-bearing Animals Have Horns (but Not All Of Them)? For Aristotle, Questions Such As These Go To The Heart Of Natural Philosophy, Which Is The Study Of The Coming To Be And Pr

Author

Mariska Leunissen

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511902000

Subjects

Nature, Science, Philosophy