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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Groot, Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science, Ancient.

Science--Philosophy--History--To 1500.

Science.

Aristotle.

Science--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 442 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing, 2014.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1930972830

9781930972834

OCLC:

869823167

Publisher Number:

99958861933