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1 online resource |
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Cambridge critical guides
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Cambridge critical guides.
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| Note |
"The majority of the essays collected in this volume originate from papers delivered at the international conference on Aristotle's Generation of Animals that took place in Paris, January 9-11, 2014." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Generation of Animals' is one of Aristotle's most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings. His overall goal is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of how animals reproduce, including a study of their reproductive organs, what we would call fertilization, embryogenesis, and organogenesis. In this book, international experts present thirteen original essays providing a philosophically and historically informed introduction to this important work. They shed light on the unity and structure of the Generation of Animals, the main theses that Aristotle defends in the work, and the method of inquiry he adopts. They also open up new avenues of exploration of this difficult and still largely unexplored work. The volume will be essential for scholars and students of ancient philosophy as well as of the history and philosophy of science. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Aristotle's philosophy and the generation of animals -- Part I The unity and structure of Aristotle's generation of animals -- Chapter 1 "One long argument"?: the unity of Aristotle's generation of animals -- Chapter 2 Parts and generation: the prologue to the generation of animals and the structure of the treatise -- Chapter 3 Order and method in Aristotle's generation of animals 2 -- Part II The principles of animal generation reconsidered -- Chapter 4 What is Aristotle's generation of animals about? -- Chapter 5 Aristotle on epigenesis: two senses of epigenesis -- Chapter 6 A latent difficulty in Aristotle's theory of semen: the homogeneous nature of semen and the role of the frothy bubble -- Chapter 7 Function and instrument: toward a new criterion of the scale of being in Aristotle's generation of animals -- Part III Hybrids, male and female, particular forms, and monsters -- Chapter 8 Hybridity and sterility in Aristotle's generation of animals -- Chapter 9 Females in Aristotle's embryology -- Chapter 10 Something(s) in the way(s) he moves: reconsidering the embryological argument for particular forms in Aristotle -- Chapter 11 Aristotle's explanations of monstrous births and deformities in generation of animals 4.4 -- Part IV Methodology in Aristotle's generation of animals -- Chapter 12 The search for principles in Aristotle: posterior analytics 2 and generation of animals 1 -- Chapter 13 Aristotle, dissection, and generation: experience, expertise, and the practices of knowing -- References -- General index -- Index of passages. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aristotle. On the generation of animals.
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On the generation of animals (Aristotle) |
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Reproduction.
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Animals (Philosophy)
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MEDICAL -- Physiology. |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology. |
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Animals (Philosophy) |
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Reproduction |
| Added Author |
Falcon, Andrea, editor.
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Lefebvre, David, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Aristotle's generation of animals 9781107132931 (DLC) 2017027451 (OCoLC)990257541 |
| ISBN |
9781316459386 (electronic book) |
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1316459381 (electronic book) |
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9781108585316 |
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1108585310 |
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9781107132931 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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1107132932 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
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9781107589582 (paperback) |
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