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14Naturgesetz in der Vorstellung der Antike, besonders der Stoa: Eine Begriffsuntersuchung (review)Isis 102 552-553. 2011.
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121Aristotle on Natural Character and Its Implications for Moral DevelopmentJournal of the History of Philosophy 50 (4): 507-530. 2012.
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434Crafting Natures: Aristotle on Animal DesignIn Georges Dicker (ed.), The Annual Proceedings of the Center for Philosophic Exchange, SUNY Brockport, . forthcoming.
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798Why Stars have no Feet. Teleological Explanations in Aristotle’s CosmologyIn Alan Bowen & Christian Wildberg (eds.), New Perspectives on Aristotle’s De Caelo, Brill. 2009.
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21Commentary on HenryProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 29 (1): 170-181. 2014.In this paper, I offer three suggestions regarding the role of Aristotle’s concept of analogy in biology as alternatives to the views defended by Devin Henry. First, I argue that the concept of analogy in Aristotle’s biological treatises points to a similarity in capacity between parts. Second, that it is mostly of methodological importance for the practice of explanation rather than for the practice of classification. And finally, that it is used with regard to parts that are visibly different …Read more
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2Book Reviews (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2): 213-225. 2007.Terence Tao New York, Oxford University Press, 2006xii + 103 pp., ISBN 9780199205615, £37.50 (hardback), ISBN 9780199205608, £12.99 (paperback)This is a book of mathematical problems and their solu...
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36Reading Aristotle: Physics VII.3. “What is Alteration?” Proceedings of the International ESAP-HYELE Conference Reading Aristotle: Physics VII.3. “What is Alteration?” Proceedings of the International ESAP-HYELE Conference ed. by Stephano Maso, Carlo Natali, and Gerhard Seel (review)American Journal of Philology 134 (1): 155-159. 2013.As the editors of this excellent little volume point out from the outset, Aristotleâs Physics VII.3 is a curious, difficult, andâsadlyâmostly neglected chapter. On the one hand, the chapter discusses quite important matters. Offering one of the lengthiest discussions of qualitative change in the Aristotelian corpus, it starts out by restricting this type of changeânot to changes in any of the four types of quality Aristotle had distinguished in Categories 8âbut to change in perceptual …Read more
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1421Aristotle's Syllogistic Model of Knowledge and the Biological Sciences: Demonstrating Natural ProcessesApeiron 43 (2-3): 31-60. 2010.
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977Nature as a good Housekeeper. Secondary Teleology and Material Necessity in Aristotle’s BiologyApeiron 43 (4): 117-142. 2010.
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1406‘What’s Teleology Got To Do With It?’ A Reinterpretation of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals VPhronesis 55 (4): 325-356. 2010.Despite the renewed interest in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals in recent years, the subject matter of GA V, its preferred mode(s) of explanation, and its place in the treatise as a whole remain misunderstood. Scholars focus on GA I-IV, which explain animal generation in terms of efficient-final causation, but dismiss GA V as a mere appendix, thinking it to concern (a) individual, accidental differences among animals, which are (b) purely materially necessitated, and (c) are only tangentially …Read more
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33Comments on Malink's Aristotle's Modal SyllogisticPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (3): 733-741. 2015.
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33Interpreting Aristotle's Posterior analytics in late antiquity and beyond (edited book)Brill. 2010.This volume collects Late Ancient, Byzantine and Medieval appropriations of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, addressing the logic of inquiry, concept formation, the question whether metaphysics is a science, and the theory of demonstration.
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2640The Structure of Teleological Explanations in Aristotle: Theory and PracticeOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 33 145-178. 2007.
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Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo IIIn R. Polansky & W. Wians (eds.), Reading Aristotle: Argument and Exposition in the Corpus Aristotelicum, . forthcoming.
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135Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Science of NatureCambridge University Press. 2010.In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end. Whereas much of recent scholarship has focused on uncovering the 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 teleology in producing explanations of natural phenomena. Close analyses of Aristotle's natural treatises and his Posterior Analytics show w…Read more
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16Aristotle’s Empiricism: Experience and Mechanics in the 4th Century BC by Jean De GrootJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 498-499. 2016.While Aristotle is mostly famous as the father of natural teleology, De Groot sets out to offer us a picture of the “other,” hitherto neglected Aristotle, whose natural science is thoroughly influenced by mechanistic procedures and ideas. Her monograph is impressive: it provides a wealth of detailed and philosophically rich discussions of sometimes overlooked Aristotelian texts, diagrams, and tables that help visualize the often technical materials she discusses, and bold and original claims tha…Read more
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917Biology and Teleology in Aristotle’s Account of the CityIn Julius Rocca (ed.), Teleology in the Ancient World: The Dispensation of Nature, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.
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7"Crafting Natures": Aristotle on Animal DesignPhilosophic Exchange 41 (1). 2011.It is a commonplace in Aristotelian scholarship that the forms of living beings and the animal species to which they give rise are “fixed.” However, Aristotle’s biological works often stress the flexibility of nature during the development of animals. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to delineate the range of flexibility that Aristotle takes natures to have in the design of animals; and second, to draw out the implications of this for Aristotle’s embryology and theory of natural tele…Read more
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37Book reviews (review)International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 21 (2). 2007.Terence Tao New York, Oxford University Press, 2006xii + 103 pp., ISBN 9780199205615, £37.50 (hardback), ISBN 9780199205608, £12.99 (paperback)This is a book of mathematical problems and their solu...
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