Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle. Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf. - LENNOX, J.G., and R. BOLTON, (eds.),
Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf
KORTE INHOUD
'This outstanding collection of ten essays pays handsome tribute to Allan Gotthelf for his many years at the center of scholarship on Aristotelian philosophy of biology and science. As noted in the introduction, 'Perhaps no one has done more in recent decades to promote, to sponsor, to organize, and to stimulate research on these topics' (p.1). The main themes of the collection -metaphysics, natural science and biology, and methodology - show deliberate continuity with the line of research inaugurated in Aristotle on Nature and Living Things (Mathesis, 1985), edited by Gotthelf, which honored David Balme for his groundbreaking work on Aristotle?s biology. While Festschrifts often amount to what Aristotle would call a heap, Lennox and Bolton cast their book as 'a certain whole', indeed, 'a multifaceted common research project in which all of the contributors have been engaged for more than twenty-five years now, under early and continuing stimulus from Allan Gotthelf' (p.3?4). The result is not monolithic, but...
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2015Uitgever: Cambridge University Press306 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1107525977ISBN-13: 9781107525979Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 2015. 1st paperback ed. XV,289p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: LENNOX, J.G., and R. BOLTON, (eds.),] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2015] [Titel: Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle. Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf.]
