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):

Aristotle.

Science, Ancient.

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

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Las Vegas, Nevada ; Zürich, Switzerland : Parmenides Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In"Aristotle s Empiricism," Jean De Groot argues that an important part of Aristotle s natural philosophy has remained largely unexplored and shows that much of Aristotle s analysis of natural movement is influenced by the logic and concepts of mathematical mechanics that emerged from late Pythagorean thought. De Groot draws upon the pseudo-Aristotelian" Physical Problems" XVI to reconstruct the context of mechanics in Aristotle s time and to trace the development of kinematic thinking from Archytas to the Aristotelian "Mechanics." She shows the influence of kinematic thinking on Aristotle s concept of power or potentiality, which she sees as having a physicalistic meaning originating in the problem of movement. De Groot identifies the source of early mechanical knowledge in kinesthetic awareness of mechanical advantage, showing the relation of Aristotle s empiricism to more ancient experience. The book sheds light on the classical Greek understanding of imitation and device, as it questions both the claim that Aristotle s natural philosophy codifies opinions held by convention and the view that the cogency of his scientific ideas depends on metaphysics."

Contents:

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Note on Transliterations and Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Empiricism and Mathematical Science in Aristotle

Chapter 2 Expressions of the Moving Radius Principle in the Fourth Century BC

Chapter 3 Kinesthetic Awareness, Experience and Phainomena

Phainomena in Aristotle's Astronomy

Chapter 5 Dunamis and Automata in Aristotle's Movement of Animals

Chapter 6 Dunamis in Aristotle's Embryology

Chapter 7 Leverage and Balance in Physical Problems XVI

Chapter 8 The Maturity of Kinematics in the Aristotelian Mechanics

Chapter 9 Did Aristotle have a Dynamics?

Chapter 10 Weight and Mathematical Science

Chapter 11 Aristotle's Empiricism in Cognitive History

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index of Names and Subjects

Also Available From Parmenides Publishing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781930972841

1930972849

OCLC:

896837486