Aristotle’s Revenge

The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

Edward Feser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

515 Seiten

2018
Editiones Scholasticae (Verlag)
978-3-86838-200-6 (ISBN)

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Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are the metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method; the status of scientific realism; the metaphysics of space and time; the metaphysics of quantum mechanics; reductionism in chemistry and biology; the metaphysics of evolution; and neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.

Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His many books include Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Aquinas, and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2018
Verlagsort	Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Schlagworte	Einführung • Naturphilosophie • Philosophie • Scholastische Philosophie
ISBN-10	3-86838-200-3 / 3868382003
ISBN-13	978-3-86838-200-6 / 9783868382006
Zustand	Neuware