Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science / / Malcolm Wilson.
Aristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation.Wilson appeals to these syste...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Genus, Abstraction, and Commensurability
- 2. Analogy in Aristotle's Biology
- 3. Analogy and Demonstration
- 4. The Structure of Focality
- 5. Metaphysical Focality
- 6. Mixed Uses of Analogy and Focality
- 7. Cumulation
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
- Backmatter