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Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2

Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 2

Philoponus,

Leunissen, M. (forthcoming), 'Aristotle and Philoponus on Final Causes in Demonstrations in Posterior Analytics II.11', in Frans de Haas and Mariska Leunissen (eds), Interpretations ofAristotle's Posterior Analytics, Leiden. Lloyd, A.C. (1990) ...
Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late ...

Interpreting Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics in Late ...

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F.A.J. de Haas, Mariska Leunissen, Marije Martijn. Like many modern commentators, Philoponus judges the example to be vague, and seems to imply that Aristotle must have been confused when he set out the syllogism. In what sense ...
Plato and Pythagoreanism

Plato and Pythagoreanism

Philip Sidney Horky

48. See, for example, PA 2.1, 646a24–646b2, where Aristotle distinguishes two types of priority that are strongly related to his teleology: what is prior in generation and what is prior in nature, which belongs to final causes. Mariska Leunissen ...
Aristotle's Physics: A Critical Guide

Aristotle's Physics: A Critical Guide

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Mariska Leunissen Throughout his life, Aristotle was deeply committed to the study of natural phenomena: About one-third of the surviving Corpus Aristotelicum investigates and explains the motions and attributes of things that have a nature, ...
The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of ...

The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of ...

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As Mariska Leunissen has also pointed out to me, this “spermatic residue” must be what remains of the mother's contribution, since the father's residue is no part of the kuēma, while the mother's residue has already been identified (at ...
Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical ...

Teleology in the Ancient World: Philosophical and Medical ...

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I thank all those responsible for these wonderful opportunities, especially Rachel Ankeny, Paul Griffiths and Charles Wolfe (Brisbane), Jordi Kat and Nico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana), Mariska Leunissen and Eric Brown (St. Louis), and Hynek ...
Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of Nature

Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of Nature

Mariska Leunissen

Whereas much of recent scholarship has focused on uncovering the (meta-)physical underpinnings of Aristotle's teleology and its contrasts with his notions of chance and necessity, this book examines Aristotle's use of the theory of natural ...
Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science

Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science

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David Ebrey. chapter 12 The scientific role of eulogos in Aristotle's Cael II 12 Andrea Falcon and Mariska Leunissen In the natural treatises, especially when empirical evidence is sparse or nonexistent, Aristotle sometimes appeals to what is ...
Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics

Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics

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chapter 10 Aristotle on knowing natural science for the sake of living well Mariska Leunissen Introduction: from biological to moral living well, and their respective sciences Aristotle's natural treatises offer various versions of sublunary scalae ...

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