Space, Time, Matter, and Form

Essays on Aristotle's Physics
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-928686-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Space, Time, Matter, and Form collects ten of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's Physics, four of them published here for the first time.

The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as his biology and psychology and the account of change in his De Generatione et Corruptione. The volume's remaining essays examine themes in later books of the Physics, including infinity, place, time, and continuity. Bostock argues that Aristotle's views on these topics are of real interest in their own right, independent of his notions of substance, form, and matter; they also raise some pressing problems of interpretation, which these essays seek to resolve.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of ancient philosophy, metaphysicians, classicists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bostock, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Aristotle on the principles of change in Physics I

- 2: Transmutation of the Elements in De Generatione et Corruptione 1.1-4

- 3: Aristotle's Theory of Matter

- 4: Aristotle on Teleology in Nature

- 5: Aristotle's Theory of Form

- 6: Aristotle on the Eleatics in Physics I, 2-3

- 7: Aristotle, Zeno, and the Potential Infinite

- 8: Note on Aristotle's Account of Place

- 9: Aristotle's Account of Time

- 10: Aristotle on Continuity in Physics VI

Über Autor(innen)

David Bostock, University of Oxford