Aristotle on Inquiry: Erotetic Frameworks and Domain-Specific Norms

ISBN-13: 9780521193979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 348 str.

James G. Lennox

Opis

Argues that, for Aristotle, scientific inquiry is governed both by a domain-neutral erotetic framework and by domain-specific norms.

Recenzje

'Aristotle's methodology of discovery is as full of genius and sophistication as his extraordinary discoveries themselves. No one interested should miss this major study by a leading expert.' Sarah Broadie, Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Philosophy, University of St Andrews

Spis treści

Introduction; I. Erotetic Frameworks and Domain Specific Norms: 1. The Goal of Knowledge and Norms of Inquiry; 2. An Erotetic Framework: The Posterior Analytics on Inquiry; 3. A Discourse on Μεθόδος; 4. Natural Science: Many Inquiries, One Science; II. Natural Inquiries: Autonomy and Integration: 5. The Μεθόδος of Nature; 6. The Μεθόδος of Animals; 7. The Soul: One Subject, Many Methods?; 8. The Order of Inquiry I: Right and Left in Cosmology and Zoology; 9. The Order of Inquiry II: The Debt of Aristotle's Zoology to Meteorology IV; 10. Framework Norms meet Domain Specific Norms: Aristotle on Respiration.