TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Malcolm
TI  - Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science
T2  - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes Series
SN  - 9781442670990
AV  - B485 .W53 2000 
U1  - 185 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - Science-Philosophy
KW  - Science-Methodology
KW  - Science, Ancient
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1: GENUS, ABSTRACTION, AND COMMENSURABILITY -- Demarcating the Genus -- Abstraction -- 1. Speed of Change -- 2. Value -- 3. Animal Locomotion -- CHAPTER 2: ANALOGY IN ARISTOTLE'S BIOLOGY -- Problems with Analogy -- 1. Fixity of Analogy -- 2. Difficult Cases -- 3. Analogues and the More and Less -- 4. Analogues and Position -- 5. Analogy of Function -- 6. Genus as Matter -- A Solution -- A Challenging Case -- Analogy and Abstraction -- CHAPTER 3: ANALOGY AND DEMONSTRATION -- Analogy in APo: Passages and Discussion -- Analogy in the Biology -- Analogy and the Scala Naturae -- CHAPTER 4: THE STRUCTURE OF FOCALITY -- Focality and Per Sc Predication -- The Limits of Focality in the Biological Works -- CHAPTER 5: METAPHYSICAL FOCALITY -- The Genus of Being -- Categorial Focality in Metaphysics Z -- Demonstration in the Science of Being -- The Wider Focal Science of Being -- CHAPTER 6: MIXED USES OF ANALOGY AND FOCALITY -- Matter and Potentiality -- The Good -- CHAPTER 7: CUMULATION -- Souls -- 1. The Analogical Account -- 2. The Cumulative Account -- Friendship -- 1. Eudemian Ethics and the Problems of Focal Friendship -- 2. The Nicomachean Version -- The Place of Theology in the Science of Being -- Conclusion: Analogy, Focality, and Cumulation -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
N2  - This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of Aristotle's theory of autonomous scientificdisciplines and the systematic connections between them: analogy, focality, and cumulation
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ER  -