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Book SynopsisProvides a critical and philosophically informed exploration of this, one of the most mature, sophisticated, and carefully crafted scientific writings, in which Aristotle gives an account of animal reproductive processes. Important for scholars and students of ancient philosophy and of the history and philosophy of science.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Aristotle's philosophy and the Generation of Animals Andrea Falcon and David Lefebvre; Part I. The Unity and Structure of Aristotle's Generation of Animals: 1. 'One long argument?' The unity of Aristotle's Generation of Animals Allan Gotthelf and Andrea Falcon; 2. Parts and generation: the prologue to the Generation of Animals and the structure of the treatise David Lefebvre; 3. Order and method in Aristotle's Generation of Animals 2 Mariska Leunissen; Part II. The Principles of Animal Generation Reconsidered: 4. What is Aristotle's Generation of Animals about? Pierre Pellegrin; 5. Aristotle on epigenesis: two senses of epigenesis Devin Henry; 6. A latent difficulty in Aristotle's theory of semen: the homogeneous nature of semen and the role of the frothy bubble Marwan Rashed; 7. Function and instrument: toward a new criterion of the scale of being in Aristotle's Generation of Animals Cristina Cerami; Part III. Hybrids, Male and Female, Particular Forms, and Monsters: 8. Hybridity and sterility in Aristotle's Generation of Animals Jocelyn Groisard; 9. Females in Aristotle's embryology Jessica Gelber; 10. Something(s) in the way(s) he moves: reconsidering the embryological argument for particular forms in Aristotle Gregory Salmieri; 11. Aristotle's explanations of monstrous births and deformities in Generation of Animals 4.4 Sophia Connell; Part IV. Methodology in Aristotle's Generation of Animals: 12. The search for principles in Aristotle: Posterior Analytics 2 and Generation of Animals 1 Robert Bolton; 13. Aristotle, dissection, and generation: experience, expertise and the practices of knowing James G. Lennox.
