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On location : Aristotle's concept of place / Benjamin Morison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morison, Benjamin, author.
- Series:
- Oxford Aristotle studies.
- Oxford Aristotle studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle. Physics.
- Aristotle.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Aristotle's concept of place
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On Location is the first book in English exclusively devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science--Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. The central question which Aristotle aims to answer is: What is it for something to be somewhere?
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Places, Natural Places, and the Power of Place; 2. Being In; 3. Zeno's Paradox of Place; 4. Three Possibilities for Place: Matter, Form, and Space; 5. Aristotle's Concept of Place; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-184) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-05266-7
- 0-19-153013-1
- 9786612052668
- OCLC:
- 405052166
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