Aristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23242556
AutoresMalcolm Wilson (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Fecha de publicación2000-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaAristotle's Theory of the Unity of Science (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781442670990
OpenAlexW423173960
Open LibraryOL35756856M
ISBN9781442670990
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Aristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation. Wilson appeals to these systematic connections in order to reconcile Aristotle's narrow theory of the subject-genus (described in the Posterior Analytics in terms of essential definitional connections among terms) with the more expansive conception found in Aristotle's scientific practice. These connections, all variations on the notion of abstraction, allow for the more expansive subject-genus, and in turn are based on concepts fundamental to the Posterior Analytics. Wilson thus treats the connections in their relation to Aristotle's theory of science and shows how they arise from his doctrine of abstraction. The effect of the argument is to place the connections, which are traditionally viewed as marginal, at the centre of Aristotle's theory of science. The scholarly work of the last decade has argued that the Posterior Analytics is essential for an understanding of Aristotle's scientific practice. Wilson's book, while grounded in this research, extends its discoveries to the problems of the conditions for the unity of scientific disciplines.

Abstraction · Analogy · Analytics · Argument (complex analysis) · Data science · Doctrine · Epistemology · Expansive · Mereology · Scientific theory · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Aristotle · Methodology · Science · Science, ancient