Aristotle's Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide by Andrea Falcon (English) H

Description: Aristotle's Generation of Animals by Andrea Falcon, David Lefebvre Provides a critical and philosophically informed exploration of this, one of the most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings, in which Aristotle gives an account of animal reproductive processes. Important for scholars and students of ancient philosophy and of the history and philosophy of science. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Generation of Animals is one of Aristotles most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilization, embryogenesis, and organogenesis. In this book, international experts present thirteen original essays providing a philosophically and historically informed introduction to this important work. They shed light on the unity and structure of the Generation of Animals, the main theses that Aristotle defends in the work, and the method of inquiry he adopts. They also open up new avenues of exploration of this difficult and still largely unexplored work. The volume will be essential for scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as of the history and philosophy of science. Author Biography Andrea Falcon is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montréal. He is the author of Corpi e Movimenti. La fortuna del De caelo nel mondo antico (2001); Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge, 2005); Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge, 2012); and Aristotelismo (2017). He is the editor of the Brills Companion to the Reception of Aristotle (2016). David Lefebvre is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA) in Clermont-Ferrand. His publications include a new translation of Aristotles Generation of Animals (2014), and he is co-editor of Dunamis. Autour de la puissance chez Aristote (2008) and La Métaphysique de Théophraste. Principes et apories (2015) and author of DYNAMIS. Sens et Genèse de la notion aristotélicienne de puissance (2017). Table of Contents Introduction; Aristotles philosophy and the Generation of Animals Andrea Falcon and David Lefebvre; Part I. The Unity and Structure of Aristotles Generation of Animals: 1. One long argument? The unity of Aristotles Generation of Animals Allan Gotthelf and Andrea Falcon; 2. Parts and generation: the prologue to the Generation of Animals and the structure of the treatise David Lefebvre; 3. Order and method in Aristotles Generation of Animals 2 Mariska Leunissen; Part II. The Principles of Animal Generation Reconsidered: 4. What is Aristotles Generation of Animals about? Pierre Pellegrin; 5. Aristotle on epigenesis: two senses of epigenesis Devin Henry; 6. A latent difficulty in Aristotles theory of semen: the homogeneous nature of semen and the role of the frothy bubble Marwan Rashed; 7. Function and instrument: toward a new criterion of the scale of being in Aristotles Generation of Animals Cristina Cerami; Part III. Hybrids, Male and Female, Particular Forms, and Monsters: 8. Hybridity and sterility in Aristotles Generation of Animals Jocelyn Groisard; 9. Females in Aristotles embryology Jessica Gelber; 10. Something(s) in the way(s) he moves: reconsidering the embryological argument for particular forms in Aristotle Gregory Salmieri; 11. Aristotles explanations of monstrous births and deformities in Generation of Animals 4.4 Sophia Connell; Part IV. Methodology in Aristotles Generation of Animals: 12. The search for principles in Aristotle: Posterior Analytics 2 and Generation of Animals 1 Robert Bolton; 13. Aristotle, dissection, and generation: experience, expertise and the practices of knowing James G. Lennox. Promotional Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text. Promotional "Headline" Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text. Description for Bookstore Provides a critical and philosophically informed exploration of this, one of the most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings, in which Aristotle gives an account of animal reproductive processes. Important for scholars and students of ancient philosophy and of the history and philosophy of science. Description for Library Provides a critical and philosophically informed exploration of this, one of the most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings, in which Aristotle gives an account of animal reproductive processes. Important for scholars and students of ancient philosophy and of the history and philosophy of science. Details ISBN1107132932 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Critical Guides ISBN-10 1107132932 ISBN-13 9781107132931 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by David Lefebvre Affiliation Concordia University, Montreal Subtitle A Critical Guide Author David Lefebvre Media Book DEWEY 612.6 Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-01-11 Pages 304 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white Language English UK Release Date 2018-01-11 AU Release Date 2018-01-11 NZ Release Date 2018-01-11 Alternative 9781107589582 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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