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THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ARISTOTLE’S NATURAL SCIENCE Aristotle argued that in theory one could acquire knowledge of the natural world. But he did not stop there; he put his theories into practice.ThisvolumeshowshowAristotle’snaturalscienceandphilo- sophicaltheoriesshedlightononeanother.Thecontributorsengage with both biological and non-biological scientific works and with a wide variety of theoretical works, including Physics, Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, and Posterior Analytics. The chapters focus on a number of themes, including the sort of explanation provided bymatter;therelationshipbetweenmatter,teleology,andnecessity; cosmicteleology;howanorganism’ssoulandfacultiesrelatetoitsend; howtodefinethingssuchassleep,void,andsoul;andtheproperway tomakescientificjudgments.Theresultingvolumeoffersarichand integrated view of Aristotle’s science and shows how it fits with his largerphilosophicaltheories. david ebrey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University,Illinois. THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ARISTOTLE’S NATURAL SCIENCE edited by DAVID EBREY NorthwesternUniversity,Illinois UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107055131 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-107-05513-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Notesoncontributors pagevii 1 Introduction 1 DavidEbrey part i matter 2 The‘matter’ofsleep 11 AlanCode 3 Arefactsaboutmatterprimitive? 46 JessicaGelber 4 Blood,matter,andnecessity 61 DavidEbrey part ii teleology 5 “Andthesethingsfollow”:teleology,necessity,and explanationinAristotle’sMeteorologica 79 MargaretScharle 6 Aristotleonthecosmologicalsignificanceofbiological generation 100 DevinHenry 7 ThetwokindsofendinAristotle:theviewfromthedeAnima 119 ThomasK.Johansen 8 TwoconceptionsofsoulinAristotle 137 ChristopherFrey v vi Contents part iii methodology 9 Aristotle’sarchitectonicsciences 163 MonteRansomeJohnson 10 Varietiesofdefinition 187 DavidSedley 11 Emptywords 199 SeanKelsey 12 ThescientificroleofEulogosinAristotle’sCaelII12 217 AndreaFalconandMariskaLeunissen Bibliography 241 Indexlocorum 249 Generalindex 256 Notes on contributors david ebrey is Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. He has written articles on Plato’s Meno and Phaedo and on Aristotle’s natural scienceandlogic. alan code is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of articles on Aristotle’s meta- physics,science,andlogic. jessica gelber isAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofPittsburgh.She haswrittenarticlesonmetaphysicalissuesinAristotle’sscience. margaret scharle isAssociateProfessoratReedCollege.Shehaswrit- tenarticlesonAristoteliannaturalphilosophy. devin henryisAssociateProfessorattheUniversityofWesternOntario. He is the author of several articles on topics in Aristotle’s philosophy of science (including classification, teleology, inheritance, and sexism) as well as Plato’s late epistemology. He is the editor, along with Karen M. Nielson, of Bridging the Gap Between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics (2015). thomas k. johansen is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College. He is the author of Aristotle on the Sense-Organs (1998), Plato’s Natural Philosophy: A Study of the Timaeus-Critias (2004), and The Powers of Aristotle’s Soul (2012). christopher frey isAssistantProfessorattheUniversityofSouthCar- olina. He is the author of articles on Aristotle’s natural philosophy and metaphysicsandoncontemporaryphilosophyofperceptionandmind. He is writing a book on the role of the soul as a principle of life in Aristotle. vii viii Notesoncontributors monte ransome johnson is Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Aristotle on Teleology (2005) andofarticlesonDemocritus,Aristotle,andLucretius.Heiscurrently working with D. S. Hutchinson on a reconstruction of Aristotle’s lost worktheProtrepticus. david sedley is Emeritus Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cam- bridge. He is the author of The Hellenistic Philosophers (1987, with A. A. Long), Plato’s Cratylus (2003), The Midwife of Platonism: Text andSubtextinPlato’sTheaetetus(2004),andCreationismanditsCritics inAntiquity(2007),aswellastheeditoroffourcollectionsofessays. sean kelsey isAssociateProfessor attheUniversity ofNotreDame.He haswrittenarticlesonAristotle’sPhysicsandPlato’sPhaedoandRepublic. andrea falcon isAssociateProfessoratConcordiaUniversity.Heisthe authorofCorpieMovimenti:IlDeCaelodiAristoteleelasuatradizione nelmondoantico(2001),AristotleandtheScienceofNature:Unitywithout Uniformity(2005),andAristotelianismintheFirstCenturybce:Xenarchus ofSeleucia(2011). mariska leunissen is Associate Professor at the University of North CarolinaatChapelHill.SheistheauthorofExplanationandTeleology inAristotle’sScienceofNature(2010)andtheeditorofAristotle’sPhysics, ACriticalGuide(forthcoming).
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