Aristotle's Empiricism
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Aristotle's Empiricism

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  1. 468 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Aristotle's Empiricism

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About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Half-title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Note on Transliterations and Abbreviations
  9. Chapter 1 Empiricism and Mathematical Science in Aristotle
  10. Chapter 2 Expressions of the Moving Radius Principle in the Fourth Century BC
  11. Chapter 3 Kinesthetic Awareness, Experience and Phainomena
  12. Phainomena in Aristotle's Astronomy
  13. Chapter 5 Dunamis and Automata in Aristotle's Movement of Animals
  14. Chapter 6 Dunamis in Aristotle's Embryology
  15. Chapter 7 Leverage and Balance in Physical Problems XVI
  16. Chapter 8 The Maturity of Kinematics in the Aristotelian Mechanics
  17. Chapter 9 Did Aristotle have a Dynamics?
  18. Chapter 10 Weight and Mathematical Science
  19. Chapter 11 Aristotle's Empiricism in Cognitive History
  20. Conclusion
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index Locorum
  23. Index of Names and Subjects
  24. Also Available From Parmenides Publishing