Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study / Edition 1

by Sarah Waterlow

Overview

This examination of Aristotle's concept of natural substance and its implications for change, process, agency, teleology, mathematical continuity, and eternal motion illustrates the conceptual power of Aristotle's metaphysics of nature along with its scientific limitations and internal tensions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198244820
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1988
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.55(w) x 5.49(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

"Impressive...no student of the Physics could fail to enjoy and benefit from [Waterlow's] work."—ISIS

"A challenging and rewarding book. Dr. Waterlow has tried with sympathy and imagination, but also with sharp critical insight, to understand what it really means to hold some of the beliefs that Aristotle held."—Ancient Philosophy

"Remarkable for [its] attention to the deeper metaphysical themes underlying Aristotle's discussions of modality and change."—Philosophical Review

"A powerful and appealing explanatory scheme which succeeds on the whole in drawing together a great many seemingly disparate elements in the Physics into a neat unitary structure.—Canadian Philosophical Reviews

"It only remains to recommend that anyone who has an interest both in Aristotle and in argument read [this book]...carefully and attentively."—International Studies in Philosophy

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