The Aristotelian Problemata physica : philosophical and scientific investigations /

The Aristotelian Problemata physica : philosophical and scientific investigations /

The Problemata physica is the third longest work in the corpus Aristotelicum, but among the least studied. It consists of 38 books, over 900 chapters, covering a vast range of subjects, including medicine and music, sex and salt water, fatigue and fruit, animals and astronomy, moderation and malodor...

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Other Authors: Mayhew, Robert.

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 139.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

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Aristotle. > Problemata.
Problemata physica.
Science, Ancient.

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Call Number: B469.7 .A73 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The Problemata physica: An Introduction /
  • István Bodnár
  • 2 Democritus, Aristotle, and the Problemata /
  • Stephen Menn
  • 3 Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and the Aristotelian Problemata /
  • James G. Lennox
  • 4 The Problemata's Medical Books: Structural and Methodological Aspects /
  • Katerina Oikonomopoulou
  • 5 Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic Corpus /
  • Oliver Thomas
  • 6 On Problemata 3: Wine-Drinking and Drunkenness /
  • William W. Fortenbaugh
  • 7 Material and Teleological Explanations in Problemata 10 /
  • Byron J. Stoyles
  • 8 Sound Reasoning in Problemata 11? Disentangling the Components of Voices /
  • Stefan Hagel
  • 9 Understanding Odours in Problemata 12-13: Peripatetic Problems Concerning the Elusive Sense of Smell /
  • Han Baltussen
  • 10 The Ethnography of Problemata 14 in (Its Mostly Aristotelian) Context /
  • Mariska Leunissen
  • 11 Problemata 15: Its Title and Agenda /
  • Alan C. Bowen
  • 12 Musical Pitch and the Enigmatic Octave in Problemata 19 /
  • Andrew Barker
  • 13 Food and Health in Problemata 21-22: Cooking (pepsis) in the Kitchen and "Cooking" (pepsis) in the Body /
  • John Wilkins
  • 14 On Problemata 23: Little Problems on the Vast Sea /
  • Malcolm Wilson
  • 15 Problemata 26 and Theophrastus' De ventis: A Preliminary Comparison /
  • Robert Mayhew
  • 16 On Problemata 27: Problems Connected with Fear and Courage /
  • William W. Fortenbaugh
  • 17 On Problemata 28: Temperance and Intemperance, Continence and Incontinence /
  • Bruno Centrone
  • 18 Problemata 29 and Athenian Law /
  • David C. Mirhady
  • 19 Black Bile as the Cause of Human Accomplishments and Behaviors in Pr. 30.1: Is the Concept Aristotelian? /
  • Eckart Schütrumpf
  • 20 Homo numerans, venerans, or imitans? Human and Animal Cognition in Problemata 30.6 /
  • Jason G. Rheins
  • 'Problematising' the Problemata: The Problemata in Relation to Other Question-and-Answer Texts /
  • Liba Taub
  • Index locorum
  • Index nominum.