This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the st

This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biolog

An overview of biology and philosophy is followed by three sections on individual issues definition and demonstration, teleology and necessity in nature, and me

This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle an

In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in