Space, time, matter, and form : essays on Aristotle's physics / David Bostock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bostock, David.

Series:

Oxford Aristotle studies.

Oxford Aristotle studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Physics.

Aristotle.

Physics--Early works to 1800.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 194 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Essays on Aristotle's physics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Aristotle on the principles of change in physics I

Aristotle on the transmutation of the elements in De generatione et corruptione I. 1-4

Aristotle's theory of matter

Aristotle on teleology in nature

Aristotle's theory of form

Aristotle on the Eleatics in physics I. 2-3

Aristotle, Zeno, and the potential infinite

A note on Aristotle's account of place

Aristotle's account of time

Aristotle on continuity in physics VI.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-192) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-15443-1

9786611154431

0-19-153684-9

1-4356-2285-5

OCLC:

560552114