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"Exploring Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, Irwin here shows how Aristotle defends dialectic against the objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims. He focuses particularly on Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, philosop...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irwin, Terence
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press, ©1988.
Colección:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
Temas:
Aristotle.
Aristote.
Aristotle
Methodology > History.
Méthodologie > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Methodology
Dialectiek.
Philosophy
Greece
Electronic books.
History
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  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • I: THE EMERGENCE OF THE PROBLEM
  • 1. The Problem of First Principles
  • 1. First principles
  • 2. Realism
  • 3. Dialectic and philosophy
  • 4. Puzzles about dialectic
  • 5. Aristotle's development
  • 6. Aristotle's conception of philosophy
  • 7. The emergence of the problem
  • 8. Solutions to the problem
  • 9. Applications of the solution
  • 2. Inquiry and Dialectic
  • 10. Aims of inquiry
  • 11. The study of method
  • 12. Ways to first principles
  • 13. Empirical starting-points
  • 14. The accumulation of data
  • 15. Induction16. The evaluation of theories
  • 17. Conclusions on Aristotle's empirical method
  • 18. The functions of dialectic
  • 19. The starting-point of dialectic
  • 20. Dialectical puzzles
  • 21. Dialectical puzzles and the aims of dialectic
  • 22. The construction of a theory
  • 23. The evaluation of dialectical theories
  • 24. The special role of dialectic
  • 25. Questions about dialectic
  • 3. Constructive Dialectic
  • 26. Positive functions for dialectic
  • 27. The nature of the categories
  • 28. Substance and the categories
  • 29. Inherence and strong predication30. Substance and quality
  • 31. Substance and change
  • 32. Substance and essential properties
  • 33. The anomaly of differentiae
  • 34. The dialectical search for first principles
  • 35. The role of dialectic
  • 36. The defence of first principles
  • 37. General features of change
  • 4. Puzzles about Substance
  • 38. Substances and subjects
  • 39. Basic subjects
  • 40. Matter
  • 41. Universals
  • 42. The dependent status of universals
  • 43. The independence of first substances
  • 44. Weaknesses of dialectic
  • 45. Principles of change46. Puzzles about unqualified becoming
  • 47. Matter as substance
  • 48. Form as substance
  • 49. Resulting difficulties
  • 5. The Formal Cause
  • 50. Nature and cause
  • 51. The four causes
  • 52. Causes and first principles
  • 53. Form and matter as causes
  • 54. Further difficulties about form
  • 55. Disputes about teleology
  • 56. The difference between final causation and coincidence
  • 57. The arguments for teleology
  • 58. The basis of the argument for teleology
  • 59. Teleology and necessity
  • 60. Teleology and substance
  • 61. Further developments6. Conditions for Science
  • 62. Science and justification
  • 63. Science and universals
  • 64. Explanatory properties and basic subjects
  • 65. Explanatory properties and the arguments about substance
  • 66. Natural priority in demonstration
  • 67. Natural priority compared with epistemic priority
  • 68. The case for circular demonstration
  • 69. The rejection of coherence as a source of justification
  • 70. The rejection of an infinite regress
  • 71. Foundationalism
  • 72. The status of first principles
  • 7. Puzzles about Science

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