Christian Pfeiffer

Aristotle's Theory of Bodies

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Produktbeschreibung

Christian Pfeiffer presents the first full account of Aristotle's theory of bodies, the perceptible, extended, and demarcated substances that are the subject-matter of physical science. He shows that many parts of Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy presuppose a general theory of body.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Aristotle Studies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780198779728
• ISBN-10: 0198779720
• Artikelnr.: 51119013

Autorenporträt

Christian Pfeiffer studied Philosophy and Ancient Greek at the Humboldt University Berlin, the Free University Berlin, and the University of Edinburgh. He received his Magister Artium in 2008. For his Ph.D he studied, as a doctoral fellow of TOPOI, at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and, as a visiting student, in Princeton. His research interests are in ancient philosophy, in particular Aristotle. He is also interested in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
Part I: Putting the Theory of Bodies in its Place
2: A Remark on the Notion of Body
3: Body in the Context of Physical Science
4: Mathematics and Physical Science
Part II: The Theory of Bodies
5: Body in Categories 6
6: A Topological Conception of Bodies
7: Contact and Continuity
8: Conclusions
Part III: Appendices
A: Metaphysics V.13
B: A List of the Propositions