The Aristotelian Problemata Physica : Philosophical and Scientific Investigations.

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Problemata physica: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Democritus, Aristotle, and the Problemata -- Chapter 3 Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and the Aristotelian Problemata -- Chapter 4 The Problemata's Medical Books: Structural and Methodological Aspects -- Chapter 5 Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic Corpus -- Chapter 6 On Problemata 3: Wine-Drinking and Drunkenness -- Chapter 7 Material and Teleological Explanations in Problemata 10 -- Chapter 8 Sound Reasoning in Problemata 11? Disentangling the Components of Voices -- Chapter 9 Understanding Odours in Problemata 12-13: Peripatetic Problems Concerning the Elusive Sense of Smell -- Chapter 10 The Ethnography of Problemata 14 in (Its Mostly Aristotelian) Context -- Chapter 11 Problemata 15: Its Title and Agenda -- Chapter 12 Musical Pitch and the Enigmatic Octave in Problemata 19 -- Chapter 13 Food and Health in Problemata 21-22: Cooking (pepsis) in the Kitchen and "Cooking" (pepsis) in the Body -- Chapter 14 On Problemata 23: Little Problems on the Vast Sea -- Chapter 15 Problemata 26 and Theophrastus' De ventis: A Preliminary Comparison -- Chapter 16 On Problemata 27: Problems Connected with Fear and Courage -- Chapter 17 On Problemata 28: Temperance and Intemperance, Continence and Incontinence -- Chapter 18 Problemata 29 and Athenian Law -- Chapter 19 Black Bile as the Cause of Human Accomplishments and Behaviors in Pr. 30.1: Is the Concept Aristotelian? -- Chapter 20 Homo numerans, venerans, or imitans? Human and Animal Cognition in Problemata 30.6 -- Chapter 21 'Problematising' the Problemata: The Problemata in Relation to Other Question-and-Answer Texts -- Index locorum -- Index nominum.

The Problemata physica has long been neglected. The essays in this collection do much to remedy this, and provide insights into the nature of philosophical inquiry in the Lyceum during Aristotle's life and in the years following his death.

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