The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics

The Order of Nature in Aristotle's Physics
Author: Helen S. Lang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1998-10-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521624533

In this book Helen S. Lang enters into the point of view of the ancient world to explain how they saw the world and to show what arguments were used by Aristotle to support this view. Lang demonstrates a new method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyzes a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another and reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The author establishes that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts. In so doing, her book will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking among philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.

Aristotle and the Science of Nature

Aristotle and the Science of Nature
Author: Andrea Falcon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2005-09-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521854399

Exploration of Aristotle's philosophy of nature in the light of scholarly insights.

Time for Aristotle

Time for Aristotle
Author: Ursula Coope
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005-10-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191530123

What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.

Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics

Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics
Author: Sarah Waterlow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780198244820

This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.

Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science

Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science
Author: David Ebrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 110705513X

This collection of groundbreaking new essays show how Aristotle's natural science illuminates fundamental topics in his philosophy.

Aristotle's Physics

Aristotle's Physics
Author: Joe Sachs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780813521923

Aristotle's Physics is one of the least studied "great books"--physics has come to mean something entirely different than Aristotle's inquiry into nature, and stereotyped Medieval interpretations have buried the original text. Sach's translation is really the only one that I know of that attempts to take the reader back to the text itself. -- Leon Cass, University of Chicago

Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics

Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics
Author: Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319178342

This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time. ​

Aristotle's Physics

Aristotle's Physics
Author: Mariska Leunissen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110703146X

This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics, taking into account recent changes in the field of Aristotle.

Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties

Aristotle's Physics and Its Medieval Varieties
Author: Helen S. Lang
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791410837

This book considers the concepts that lay at the heart of natural philosophy and physics from the time of Aristotle until the fourteenth century. The first part presents Aristotelian ideas and the second part presents the interpretation of these ideas by Philoponus, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, John Buridan, and Duns Scotus. Across the eight chapters, the problems and texts from Aristotle that set the stage for European natural philosophy as it was practiced from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries are considered first as they appear in Aristotle and then as they are reconsidered in the context of later interests. The study concludes with an anticipation of Newton and the sense in which Aristotle's physics had been transformed.

On Location

On Location
Author: Benjamin Morison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2002-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199247919

Aims to explain as carefully as possible Aristotle's account of place given in the Physics, Book IV, Chs. 1-5. Also aims to rehabilitate it as a piece of philosophy, after many centuries of its being dismissed as inadequate. Discusses the importance of the concept of place to natural philosophy, including the role of so-called 'natural' places in the explanation of the natural motion of the elements.