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Aristotle's posterior analytics and the Aristotelian ProblemataIn Robert Mayhew (ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata Physica : Philosophical and Scientific Investigations, Brill. 2015.
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1'As if we were investigating snubness': Aristotle on the Prospects for a Single Science of NatureIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxxv: Winter 2008, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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48Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001.
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Aristotle: On the Parts of AnimalsPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (213): 607-609. 2003.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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A Study of the Interaction Between Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and His Biological WorksDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1977.
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13Aristotle's de partibus animalium I and de generatione animalium I: DM Balme,(with passages from book II. 1–3), revised edition,(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), 192 pp (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 817-823. 1994.
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115Chalmers, David J. The Character of Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2010, 624 pp. Cliteur, Paul. The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 328 pp. Cochran, Molly. The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, Cambridge Uni (review)Metaphilosophy 42 (3): 0026-1068. 2011.
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Philosophy of biologyIn Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour & James G. Lennox (eds.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 269--309. 1992.
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11Of BiologyIn Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour & James G. Lennox (eds.), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company. pp. 269. 1992.
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18Getting a Science Going: Aristotle on Entry Level Kinds'In Gereon Wolters & Martin Carrier (eds.), Homo Sapiens und Homo Faber: epistemische und technische Rationalität in Antike und Gegenwart ; Festschrift für Jürgen Mittelstrass, De Gruyter. pp. 87. 2005.
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39“As if we were investigating snubness”: Aristotle on the prospects for a single science of nature,'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 35 149-186. 2008.
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22Aristotle's biology: plain, but not simpleStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5): 817-823. 1994.The occasion for this critical review is the publication of a second, revised edition of David M Balme's translation, with introduction and notes, of Aristotle's "De Partimus Animalium I" and "De Generatione Animalium I" in the Clarendon Aristotle series. The second edition includes an appendix by Allan Gotthelf with a selective bibliography and a guide to the philosophical literature occasioned by Balme's notes. This critical review discusses Balme's unique style of translation and commentary, …Read more
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113An Aristotelian Philosophy of Biology: Form, Function and DevelopmentActa Philosophica 26 (1): 33-52. 2007.In metaphysics and philosophy of science, a significant movement is making inroads, under the banner of ‘neo-Aristotelianism’. This movement has so far been focused primarily on the physical sciences; but given that Aristotle the natural scientist was above all a biologist, it is worth asking what a neo-Aristotelian philosophy of biology would look like? In this paper, I begin a discussion on precisely that question. One interesting result is that the fact that biology is now permeated by evolut…Read more
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64Putting Philosophy of Science to the Test: The Case of Aristotle's BiologyPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1994. 1994.During the Middle Ages and Rennaissance, it was commonly believed that Aristotle's biological studies reflected his theory of demonstrative science quite well. By contrast, most commentators in the twentieth century have taken it that this is not the case. This is largely the result of preconceptions about what a natural science modelled after the proposals of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics would look like. I argue that these modern preconceptions are incorrect, and that, while the Analytics le…Read more
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1The comparative study of animal development : From Aristotle to William Harvey's aristotelianismIn Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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Between data and demonstration: The Analytics and the Historia AnimaliumIn Alan C. Bowen (ed.), Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece, Garland. pp. 2--61. 1991.
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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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La fonction biologique: phylogénie d'un conceptIn Jean Gayon & Armand de Ricqlès (eds.), Les fonctions: des organismes aux artefacts, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 17--42. 2010.
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188Episteme, demonstration, and explanation: A fresh look at Aristotle’s Posterior AnalyticsMetascience 23 (1): 1-35. 2014.
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Form as cause and the formal cause : Aristotle's answerIn Ludger Jansen & Petter Sandstad (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation, Routledge. 2021.
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26From 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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7Aristotle: 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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11On the Parts of Animals I-Iv: Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2002.In On the Parts of Animals, Aristotle develops his systematic principles for biological investigation and explanation, and applies those principles to explain why the different animals have the different parts that they do. This new translation and commentary reflects the subtlety and detail of Aristotle's reasoning.
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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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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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16Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue: Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand is a cultural phenomenon. Her books have sold more than 25 million copies, and countless individuals speak of her writings as having significantly influenced their lives. In spite of the popular interest in her ideas, or perhaps because of it, Rand’s work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. Though best known among philosophers for her strong support of egoism in ethics and capitalism in politics, there is an increasingly widespread a…Read more
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Demarcating ancient science. A discussion of GER Lloyd, Science, Folklore and IdeologyOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 3 307-324. 1985.
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26Aristotle: 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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31Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle: Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need to be studied together if any one of the areas of thought is to be fully understood. Many of the papers were contributions to a conference at the University of Pittsburgh entitled 'Being, Nature, and …Read more