The Aristotelian Problemata physica : : philosophical and scientific investigations / / edited by Robert Mayhew ; contributors, Han Baltussen [and nineteen others].
The Problemata physica is the third longest work in the corpus Aristotelicum, but among the least studied. It consists of 38 books, over 900 chapters, covering a vast range of subjects, including medicine and music, sex and salt water, fatigue and fruit, animals and astronomy, moderation and malodor...
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| Superior document: | Philosophia Antiqua, Volume 139 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophia antiqua ;
Volume 139. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (483 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 The Problemata physica: An Introduction / István Bodnár
- 2 Democritus, Aristotle, and the Problemata / Stephen Menn
- 3 Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics and the Aristotelian Problemata / James G. Lennox
- 4 The Problemata’s Medical Books: Structural and Methodological Aspects / Katerina Oikonomopoulou
- 5 Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic Corpus / Oliver Thomas
- 6 On Problemata 3: Wine-Drinking and Drunkenness / William W. Fortenbaugh
- 7 Material and Teleological Explanations in Problemata 10 / Byron J. Stoyles
- 8 Sound Reasoning in Problemata 11? Disentangling the Components of Voices / Stefan Hagel
- 9 Understanding Odours in Problemata 12–13: Peripatetic Problems Concerning the Elusive Sense of Smell / Han Baltussen
- 10 The Ethnography of Problemata 14 in (Its Mostly Aristotelian) Context / Mariska Leunissen
- 11 Problemata 15: Its Title and Agenda / Alan C. Bowen
- 12 Musical Pitch and the Enigmatic Octave in Problemata 19 / Andrew Barker
- 13 Food and Health in Problemata 21–22: Cooking (pepsis) in the Kitchen and “Cooking” (pepsis) in the Body / John Wilkins
- 14 On Problemata 23: Little Problems on the Vast Sea / Malcolm Wilson
- 15 Problemata 26 and Theophrastus’ De ventis: A Preliminary Comparison / Robert Mayhew
- 16 On Problemata 27: Problems Connected with Fear and Courage / William W. Fortenbaugh
- 17 On Problemata 28: Temperance and Intemperance, Continence and Incontinence / Bruno Centrone
- 18 Problemata 29 and Athenian Law / David C. Mirhady
- 19 Black Bile as the Cause of Human Accomplishments and Behaviors in Pr. 30.1: Is the Concept Aristotelian? / Eckart Schütrumpf
- 20 Homo numerans, venerans, or imitans? Human and Animal Cognition in Problemata 30.6 / Jason G. Rheins
- ‘Problematising’ the Problemata: The Problemata in Relation to Other Question-and-Answer Texts / Liba Taub
- Index locorum
- Index nominum.