Cosmology And Biology In Ancient Philosophy
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Author |
: Ricardo Salles |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2021-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108872102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108872107 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy by : Ricardo Salles
In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions.
Author |
: Ricardo Salles |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2021-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108836579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108836577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy by : Ricardo Salles
Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2022-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004504691 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004504699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition by :
This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.
Author |
: Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2004-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107320116 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107320119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Plato's Natural Philosophy by : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Plato's dialogue the Timaeus-Critias presents two connected accounts, that of the story of Atlantis and its defeat by ancient Athens and that of the creation of the cosmos by a divine craftsman. This book offers a unified reading of the dialogue. It tackles a wide range of interpretative and philosophical issues. Topics discussed include the function of the famous Atlantis story, the notion of cosmology as 'myth' and as 'likely', and the role of God in Platonic cosmology. Other areas commented upon are Plato's concepts of 'necessity' and 'teleology', the nature of the 'receptacle', the relationship between the soul and the body, the use of perception in cosmology, and the work's peculiar monologue form. The unifying theme is teleology: Plato's attempt to show the cosmos to be organised for the good. A central lesson which emerges is that the Timaeus is closer to Aristotle's physics than previously thought.
Author |
: Thomas Kjeller Johansen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2021-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108624152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108624154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy by : Thomas Kjeller Johansen
This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out the ancient debates about technê from the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers, through Plato and Aristotle and the Hellenistic age (Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics), ending in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Amongst the many themes that come into focus are: the model status of ancient medicine in defining the political art, the similarities between the Platonic and Aristotelian conceptions of technê, the use of technê as a paradigm for virtue and practical rationality, technê ́s determining role in Platonic conceptions of cosmology, technê ́s relationship to experience and theoretical knowledge, virtue as an 'art of living', the adaptability of the criteria of technê to suit different skills, including philosophy itself, the use in productive knowledge of models, deliberation, conjecture and imagination.
Author |
: Thomas Nagel |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2012-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199919758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199919755 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mind and Cosmos by : Thomas Nagel
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author |
: Mary Louise Gill |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2009-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405188340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405188340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Ancient Philosophy by : Mary Louise Gill
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive and current overview of the history of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from its origins until late antiquity. Comprises an extensive collection of original essays, featuring contributions from both rising stars and senior scholars of ancient philosophy Integrates analytic and continental traditions Explores the development of various disciplines, such as mathematics, logic, grammar, physics, and medicine, in relation to ancient philosophy Includes an illuminating introduction, bibliography, chronology, maps and an index
Author |
: Paul Humphreys |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 945 |
Release |
: 2016-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190630706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190630701 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science by : Paul Humphreys
This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the traditional topics in the philosophy of science, such as causation, probability, models, ethics and values, and explanation. Section III identifies new areas of investigation that show promise of becoming important areas of research, including the philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, data, complexity theory, neuroscience, simulations, post-Kuhnian philosophy, post-empiricist epistemology, and emergence. Most chapters are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to professional philosophers, and the contributors - all leading researchers in their field -- bring diverse perspectives from the North American, European, and Australasian research communities. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and students.
Author |
: Robert C. Bishop |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 690 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830891641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830891641 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins by : Robert C. Bishop
From five authors with over two decades of experience teaching origins together in the classroom, this is the first textbook to offer a full-fledged discussion of the scientific narrative of origins from the Big Bang through humankind, from biblical and theological perspectives. This work gives the reader a detailed picture of mainstream scientific theories of origins along with how they fit into the story of God's creative and redemptive action.
Author |
: Chelsea C. Harry |
Publisher |
: Brill's Companions to Philosop |
Total Pages |
: 492 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004318178 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004318175 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought by : Chelsea C. Harry
"In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by Gottfried Heinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham, Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Christopher Kurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on the philosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics. Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy"--