Research Catalog

Title

Aristotle's empiricism : experience and mechanics in the fourth century BC / Jean De Groot.

Author

De Groot, Jean

Publication

Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2014.

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Details

Description

xxv, 442 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• History
• Aristotle
• Science > Philosophy > History > To 1500
• Science, Ancient

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1 Empiricism and Mathematical Science in Aristotle 1 -- Qualitative Science 6 -- Experience of Mathematical Properties 10 -- Experience and Dunamis 12 -- Powers and Mechanical Philosophy 15 -- Automata in Plato and Aristotle 17 -- Chapter 2 Expressions of the Moving Radius Principle in the Fourth Century BC 21 -- The Aristotelian Mechanics 22 -- Two Versions in Plato and Aristotle 25 -- The Lever In Aristotle's Movement of Animals 31 -- Physical Problems XVI 39 -- A New Proportional Rule 45 -- Classification of Expressions by Texts 48 -- Chapter 3 Kinesthetic Awareness, Experience, and Phainoomena 51 -- The Moving Radius in Kinesthetic Awareness 55 -- Empeiria and Universals 63 -- Experience and Natural Philosophy 75 -- Chapter 4 Phoinomena in Aristotle's Astronomy 83 -- Phainomena and Propositional Knowledge 84 -- Percepts and Intelligibility 87 -- Experience and Concentric Circles in the Heavens 97 -- Mechanical Properties as Perceived 103 -- Theorem Ta Phoinomena 104 -- Chapter 5 Dunamis and Automata in Aristotle's Movement of Animals 107 -- Prospectus 107 -- What is Movement of Animals About? 110 -- The Rolling Cone in Movement of Animals 7 113 -- Dunamis, Leverage, and Form 124 -- Dunamis as Active Receptivity 135 -- Chapter 6 Dunamis in Aristotle's Embryology 141 -- Causes and Motion in Embryology 142 -- Dunamis and Matter 146 -- The Sensitive Soul and the Nutritive Soul 151 -- The Micro-Structure of Movement 153 -- Dunamis, Soul, and Efficient Cause 159 -- Chapter 7 Leverage and Balance in Physical Problems XVI 163 -- Scientific Problems in the Aristotelian School Literature 165 -- The Related Topics of Book XVI 170 -- Constraint and Curved Motion 173 -- The Rebound of Objects from a Surface, Falling, and the Descent of Airborne Objects 181 -- The Cone, the Cylinder, and the Scroll 188 -- Archytas on the Shape of Growth 195 -- An Aristotelian Argument for the Proportion of Equality 207 -- The Rounding of Shells in the Surf 214 -- Summary and Results 216 -- Chapter 8 The Maturity of Kinematics in the Aristotelian Mechanics 221 -- Physical Problems XVI and Mechanics 1 221 -- The Demonstration of Mechanics 1 225 -- The Scholarly Context 236 -- Chapter 9 Did Aristotle have a Dynamics? 249 -- An Interpretive Frame 249 -- Multi-Variant Movement in Physics IV.8 254 -- Continuum Reasoning Without Mechanics 269 -- Homonymy in Physics VII 281 -- Summary 296 -- Coda on the Sequence of Aristotle's Interests 297 -- Chapter 10 Weight and Mathematical Science 301 -- Quantity and Proportion 303 -- Weight in Plato 306 -- Aristotle's Criticism of Earlier Cosmology 312 -- Aristotle on Quantity and Relation 318 -- Mechanics and Pha'momena in Posterior Analytics 1.13 326 -- Proportionality and Commonality 336 -- Chapter 11 Aristotle's Empiricism in Cognitive History 339 -- The Fundamental Insight of Mechanics 339 -- Proportional Reasoning and Versions of Action 352 -- A Summation of Coming to Know 361 -- Conclusion -- Empiricism and Experience 363 -- The Other Aristotle 366.

ISBN

• 9781930972834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1930972830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781930972841 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 1930972849 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013050403

OCLC

• 869823167
• SCSB-12693968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library