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A collection of David Bostock's essays on themes from Aristotle's "Physics". The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of "Physics", centred on notions of matter and form; the latter five examine themes in the remaining books, including infinity, place, and continuity. They are useful for scholars of ancient philosophy.

This book presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of how shame instils virtue, and defends its philosophical import. Shame is shown to provide motivational continuity between the actions of the learners and the virtuous dispositions that they will eventually acquire.

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. David Charles argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind: it offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.

Sylvia Berryman offers a fresh understanding of Aristotle's ethical theory, challenging the common belief that he aimed to give it a biological foundation in human nature. Berryman reinterprets Aristotle's views as a 'middle way' between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonists and sceptical or subjectivist alternatives.

In the first book-length study of Aristotle's engagement with Eleatic monism, Timothy Clarke offers a detailed reconstruction and appraisal of Aristotle's criticisms of Eleatic monism, and uses these criticisms to work out how he understood the theory and the arguments given in its defence.

Christian Pfeiffer presents the first full account of Aristotle's theory of bodies, the perceptible, extended, and demarcated substances that are the subject-matter of physical science. He shows that many parts of Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy presuppose a general theory of body.

Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics.

This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science.

Jamie Dow presents an original treatment of Aristotle's views on rhetoric and the passions, and the first major study of Aristotle's Rhetoric in recent years. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions.

David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest-knowledge and learning-and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text.

Shields presents a study of a feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts: how a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. He examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity and demonstrates the continuing fruitfulness of his methodology.

Aristotle's has been the most influential philosophy in the whole history of science. This book examines its most controversial aspect: Aristotle's emphasis on the importance of goals and purposes to scientific understanding - his teleology. It shows also how Aristotle's theory has implications for environmental ethics and for the theory of value.

Thomas Kjeller Johansen presents a new account of Aristotle's major work on psychology, the De Anima. He argues that Aristotle explains a variety of psychological phenomena-including perception, intellect, memory, and imagination-by reference to the soul's capacities, and considers how Aristotle adopts and adapts this theory in his later works.

What is the relation between time and change? This book argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. Based on this interpretation, it explains two Aristotelian claims such as: the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.

On Location is the first book devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science-Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. Ben Morison presents an authoritative exposition and defence of this account of what it is for something to be somewhere, and demonstrates its enduring philosophical interest and value.

Jessica Moss presents a bold and controversial account of Aristotle's moral psychology. She argues that on Aristotle's view things appear good to us in virtue of a psychological capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual phenomena: phantasia ('imagination'). Her interpretation restricts the role of reason in ethics, and prioritises pleasure instead.

Michael Wedin argues against the prevailing view that Aristotle's views on the nature of reality are fundamentally inconsistent: the difference between the early theory of the Categories and the later theory of the Metaphysics reflects the fact that Aristotle is engaged in quite different projects in the two works.

It is commonly held that Aristotle's views on politics have little relevance to the preoccupations of modern political theory with authority and obligation. This work considers the ethical underpinning of Aristotle's political thought, the normativity of his political theory, and the concepts of political authority and obligation themselves.

The idea that some parts of reality are fundamental and others derivative was an important one in Aristotle's philosophical system, and is now again of great current interest in philosophy. Michail Peramatzis presents a new account of priority relations in Aristotle's metaphysics, and draws out their continuing philosophical significance.

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. These terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, but Aristotle did not intend this. Beere's careful reading of Metaphysics Theta shows the way to an analogical conception of energeia.

Charles presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, necessity, and related topics. He aims, on the basis of a careful reading of Aristotle's texts and many subsequent works, to reach a clear understanding of his claims and arguments, and to assess their truth and their importance to philosophy ancient and modern.

"De Interpretatione" is among Aristotle's most influential and widely-read writings. Whitaker presents a systematic study of this work, and offers a radical view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, based upon a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the text.