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Aristotle on teleology /

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Aristotle's has been the most influential philosophy in the whole history of science. Monte Johnson examines its most controversial aspect, Aristotle's emphasis on the importance of goals and purposes to scientific understanding - his teleology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Monte Ransome
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford Aristotle studies.
Subjects:
Aristotle.
Aristote.
Aristotle
Teleology.
Finalité.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Teleology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Historical background to the interpretation of Aristotle's teleology
  • Preliminary study of Aristotle's causes
  • Teleological notions
  • Teleological dialectic
  • Teleology and elements
  • Teleology and organisms I : general principles
  • Teleology and organisms II : specific explanations
  • Teleology and humans
  • Teleology and the cosmos.