Aristotle on Scientific Explanation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Burleigh Taylor Wilkins (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-355 |
| Publication date | 1970-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300028961 |
| OpenAlex | W2096450920 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The problem . The purpose of this paper is to provide a general discussion of Aristotle's views on scientific explanation, by which I mean a discussion of Aristotle's treatment of scientific explanation, its structure and its principles, as distinct from Aristotle's own principles of explanation. By means of this distinction I hope to be excused from a discussion of Aristotle on form and matter, potentiality and actuality, and the four causes, and to avoid so far as possible the controversy among commentators concerning the respective merits of Aristotle qua naturalist and Aristotle qua pre-Thomist Thomist. I wish to be excused from treating these problems in order to approach directly Aristotle's formal treatment of scientific explanation as given in the Posterior Analytics , but if I were to be accused of introducing a distinction between parts of the Aristotelian corpus for which there is insufficient warrant, if I were told that I am making an illegitimate abstraction from the whole of which the Posterior Analytics is but a part, I should plead not guilty
Abstraction · Analytics · Causation · Data science · Economics · Epistemology · Order (exchange) · Warrant · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |