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30In memoriam: Carl G. (peter) Hempel 1905--1997 (review)Biology and Philosophy 14 (4): 477-480. 1999.
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18IntroductionIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. 2017.
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2“For a Human Being Reproduces a Human Being”: A Mundane, Profound, Aristotelian TruthIn Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou (ed.), Aristotle - Contemporary Perspectives on His Thought: On the 2400th Anniversary of Aristotle's Birth, De Gruyter. pp. 57-74. 2018.
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3FrontmatterIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. 2017.
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300Darwin was a teleologistBiology and Philosophy 8 (4): 409-421. 1993.It is often claimed that one of Darwin''s chief accomplishments was to provide biology with a non-teleological explanation of adaptation. A number of Darwin''s closest associates, however, and Darwin himself, did not see it that way. In order to assess whether Darwin''s version of evolutionary theory does or does not employ teleological explanation, two of his botanical studies are examined. The result of this examination is that Darwin sees selection explanations of adaptations as teleological …Read more
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9Commentary on SorabjiProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 4 (1): 64-75. 1988.
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8Connections not so obvious: the Historia animalium and De generatione animalium on generationIn Sabine Föllinger (ed.), Aristotle’s ›Generation of Animals‹: A Comprehensive Approach, De Gruyter. pp. 45-66. 2022.
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10Colloquium 6Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1): 217-240. 1995.
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2ContentsIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. 2017.
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3ContributorsIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. pp. 331-332. 2017.
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48Aristotle's de generatione et corruptioneJournal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4): 472-474. 1984.
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24Aristotle's de partibus animalium I and de generatione animalium IStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 817-823. 1994.
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123Review: David Bostock: Space, Time, Matter, and Form: Essays on Aristotle's Physics (review)Mind 117 (465): 170-174. 2008.
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53Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1987.Aristotle's biological works - constituting over 25% of his surviving corpus and for centuries largely unstudied by philosophically oriented scholars - have been the subject of an increasing amount of attention of late. This collection brings together some of the best work that has been done in this area, with the aim of exhibiting the contribution that close study of these treatises can make to the understanding of Aristotle's philosophy. The book is divided into four parts, each with an introd…Read more
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83Aristotle's biologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Aristotle is properly recognized as the originator of the scientific study of life. This is true despite the fact that many earlier Greek natural philosophers occasionally speculated on the origins of living things and much of the Hippocratic medical corpus, which was written before or during Aristotle's lifetime, displays a serious interest in human anatomy, physiology and pathology. Even Plato has Timaeus devote a considerable part of his speech to the human body and its functions (and malfunc…Read more
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15The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Robert J. Richards (review)Philosophy of Science 61 (4): 673-675. 1994.
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25Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2017.The concept of self-motion is not only fundamental in Aristotle's argument for the Prime Mover and in ancient and medieval theories of nature, but it is also central to many theories of human agency and moral responsibility. In this collection of mostly new essays, scholars of classical, Hellenistic, medieval, and early modern philosophy and science explore the question of whether or not there are such things as self-movers, and if so, what their self-motion consists in. They trace the developme…Read more
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7Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences: The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, October 1-4, 1993 (edited book, review)University of Piuttsburgh Press/Universitätsverlag Konstanz. 1995.Leading biologists and philosophers of biology discuss the basic theories and concepts of biology and their connections with ethics, economics, and psychology, providing a remarkably unified report on the “state of the art” in the philosophy of biology.
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5On the Parts of Animals I-Iv: An Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.Aristotle is without question the founder of the science of biology. In his treatise On the Parts of Animals, he develops his systematic principles for biological investigation, and explanation, and applies those principles to explain why the different animal kinds have the different parts that they do. It is one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. This new translation from the Greek aims to reflect the subtlety and detail of Aristotle's reasoning. The commentary provides hel…Read more
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773Aristotle on the Unity of the Nutritive and Reproductive FunctionsPhronesis 65 (4): 414-466. 2020.In De Anima 2.4, Aristotle claims that nutritive soul encompasses two distinct biological functions: nutrition and reproduction. We challenge a pervasive interpretation which posits ‘nutrients’ as the correlative object of the nutritive capacity. Instead, the shared object of nutrition and reproduction is that which is nourished and reproduced: the ensouled body, qua ensouled. Both functions aim at preserving this object, and thus at preserving the form, life, and being of the individual organis…Read more