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1Aristotelian Teleology, Presocratic Hylozoism, and 20th Century InterpretationsAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (3): 297-312. 1990.
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2The Mechanistic and the Aristotelian Orientations toward Nature and Their Metaphysical BackgroundsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 187-202. 2007.Any cognitive orientation toward nature is interconnected with how the metaphysical structure of nature itself is understood. In the Aristotelian tradition, the primary unit of being is considered to be the substantial form, which constitutes the being and essence of entities. In the mechanistic tradition, the primary units are considered to be minute particles out of which larger entities are constructed. Correspondingly, Aristotelian scientific methodology seeks to gain insight into the substa…Read more
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12Aristotle’s Syllogistic, Modern Deductive Logic, and Scientific DemonstrationAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 535-552. 2007.This article investigates the nature of Aristotelian syllogistics and shows that the categorical syllogism is fundamentally about showing the connection, in the premises of the syllogism, between the major and minor terms as stated in the conclusion. It discusses how this is important for the use of the syllogism in scientific demonstration. The article then examines modern deductive logic with an eye to they way in which it contrasts with Aristotelian syllogistics. It shows howmodern logic is a…Read more
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2Parmenides and the History of Dialectic (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (3): 625-628. 2010.
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5Aristotle’s Syllogystic, Modern Deductive Logic, and Scientific DemonstrationAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 535-552. 2007.This article investigates the nature of Aristotelian syllogistics and shows that the categorical syllogism is fundamentally about showing the connection, in the premises of the syllogism, between the major and minor terms as stated in the conclusion. It discusses how this is important for the use of the syllogism in scientific demonstration. The article then examines modern deductive logic with an eye to they way in which it contrasts with Aristotelian syllogistics. It shows howmodern logic is a…Read more
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3Scientific demonstration in Aristotle, Theoria, and ReductionismReview of Metaphysics 60 (3): 479-506. 2007.This article presents Aristotelian scientific demonstration as a method for attaining intuitive theoria of essential natures. Such insight is attained through the discursive demonstrative syllogism. Science is understood as knowledge of causes through their effects, as opposed to an operative knowledge of the consequences of causes. This understanding is thus counter-reductionist.
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8Expressive Causality and the Ontological Integrity of NatureAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 84 (3): 461-482. 2010.This essay seeks to ground the ontological integrity of natural things by examining the dialectic between substantial form, which is the “being-in-itself ”of substances, and second acts, the “being-toward-others” of substances. It is found that a new category of causality needs to be established, that of “expressive causality.” The effects of expressive causality—second acts—are expressions of their substantial form, their cause. It is determined that second acts are sufficient conditions for su…Read more
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3The Mechanistic and the Aristotelian Orientations toward Nature and Their Metaphysical BackgroundsInternational Philosophical Quarterly 47 (2): 187-202. 2007.Any cognitive orientation toward nature is interconnected with how the metaphysical structure of nature itself is understood. In the Aristotelian tradition, the primary unit of being is considered to be the substantial form, which constitutes the being and essence of entities. In the mechanistic tradition, the primary units are considered to be minute particles out of which larger entities are constructed. Correspondingly, Aristotelian scientific methodology seeks to gain insight into the substa…Read more
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5Nature and the Artificial: Aristotelian Reflections on the Operative ImperativeLexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield). 2017.This book explores the artificial by examining transformations in the Aristotelian metaphysical understanding of the relationship between nature and techne, which leads to the “operative imperative” in early modernity. With this a reversal takes place, whereby instead of nature being model for techne as it is for Aristotle and Aquinas, techne becomes the model for nature.
Edward Engelmann
Merrimack College
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Merrimack CollegeTeaching staff (Part-time)