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41Aristotle's De Motu Animalium: Text with Translation, Commentary and Interpretive EssaysPhilosophy of Science 47 (1): 156-159. 1980.
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33Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1992.A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader represents a cooperative effort to provide an introduction to the philosophy of science focused on cultivating an understanding of both the workings of science and its historical and social context. Selections range from discussions of topics in general methodology to a sampling of foundational problems in various physical, biological, behavioral, and soci…Read more
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31Explanatory Structures: A Study of Concepts of Explanation in Early Physics and PhilosophyPhilosophy of Science 46 (4): 652-654. 1979.
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29Most Natural Among the Functions of Living ThingsIn Giouli Korobili & Roberto Lo Presti (eds.), Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, De Gruyter. pp. 1-20. 2020.
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28In memoriam: Carl G. (peter) Hempel 1905--1997 (review)Biology and Philosophy 14 (4): 477-480. 1999.
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26Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (3): 652-654. 1997.
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25Aristotle: On the Parts of Animals (edited book)Clarendon Press. 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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24Robert Boyle's Defense of Teleological Inference in Experimental ScienceIsis 74 (1): 38-52. 1983.
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23Aristotle'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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23Self-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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22The 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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22Aristotle on the Generation of Animals: A Philosophical Study by Johannes Morsink (review)Isis 74 440-441. 1983.
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21De caelo 2.2 and Its Debt to De incessu animaliumIn Alan Bowen & Christian Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Caelo, Brill. pp. 1--187. 2009.
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20From the Method of Division to the Theory of Transformations: Thompson After Aristotle, and Aristotle After ThompsonBiological Theory 1-16. forthcoming.Aristotle’s influence on D’Arcy Thompson was praised by Thompson himself and has been recognized by others in various respects, including the aesthetic and normative dimensions of biology, and the multicausal explanation of living forms. This article focuses on the relatedness of organic forms, one of the core problems addressed by both Aristotle’s History of Animals (HA), and the renowned chapter of Thompson’s On Growth and Form (G&F), “On the Theory of Transformations, or the Comparison of Rel…Read more
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20Essay review of Aristotle's de partibus animalium I and de generatione animalium I: D.M. Balme, (with passages from book II. 1–3) (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 817-823. 1994.
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19Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions Of The Soul (review)Isis 93 104-105. 2002.Life's Form is that rarest of books: an important contribution to advanced scholarship on its subject that is thoroughly accessible to nonspecialists. It immerses its readers in the world of the sixteenth‐ to seventeenth‐century scientia de anima, within which, and out of which, emerges Descartes's decidedly non‐Aristotelian conception of the body‐soul relation that has haunted us ever since. We are treated to lengthy, elegant translations of the Latin texts of the leading Jesuit philosophers of…Read more
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17IntroductionIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. 2017.
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15Keith M. Parsons, Drawing Out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (review)Metascience 12 (1): 109-111. 2003.
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15Aristotle's philosophy of biology: studies in the origins of life scienceCambridge University Press. 2000.In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of …Read more
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14Aristotle on the Generation of Animals: A Philosophical StudyJohannes MorsinkIsis 74 (3): 440-441. 1983.
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14On the Movement and Progression of Animals (review)International Studies in Philosophy 17 (3): 81-82. 1985.
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13Accentuate the negative: Locating possibility in Darwin’s ‘long argument’Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 87 (C): 147-157. 2021.
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12Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific NormsCambridge University Press. 2020.Aristotle is a rarity in the history of philosophy and science - he is a towering figure in the history of both disciplines. Moreover, he devoted a great deal of philosophical attention to the nature of scientific knowledge. How then do his philosophical reflections on scientific knowledge impact his actual scientific inquiries? In this book James Lennox sets out to answer this question. He argues that Aristotle has a richly normative view of scientific inquiry, and that those norms are of two k…Read more