A Companion to Aristotle

Notes on Contributors xi

Preface xvi

Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works xviii

Part I ARISTOTLE'S LIFE AND WORKS 1

1 Aristotle's Life 3

GEORGIOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

2 Aristotle's Works and the Development of His Thought 14

GEORGIOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

Part II THE TOOLS OF INQUIRY 29

3 Deductive Logic 31

DAVID KEYT

4 Aristotle's Theory of Demonstration 51

ROBIN SMITH

5 Empiricism and the First Principles of Aristotelian Science 66

MICHAEL FEREJOHN

6 Aristotle on Signification and Truth 81

PAOLO CRIVELLI

7 Aristotle's Methods 101

GEORGIOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS

Part III THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE 123

A. Metaphysics

8 The Science and Axioms of Being 125

MICHAEL V. WEDIN

9 Aristotelian Categories 144

GARETH B. MATTHEWS

10 Form and Matter 162

FRANK A. LEWIS

11 Aristotle on Universals 186

MICHAEL J. LOUX

12 Substances 197

S. MARC COHEN

13 Causes 213

R. J. HANKINSON

14 Heavenly Bodies and First Causes 230

SARAH BROADIE

B. Physics

15 Mixing the Elements 242

THEODORE SCALTSAS

16 Aristotle on the Infi nite, Space, and Time 260

MICHAEL J. WHITE

17 Change and Its Relation to Actuality and Potentiality 277

URSULA COOPE

C. Psychology

18 The Aristotelian Psuchê 292

CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS

19 Sensation and Desire 310

DEBORAH KAREN WARD MODRAK

20 Phantasia and Thought 322

VICTOR CASTON

D. Biology

21 Teleology in Living Things 335

MOHAN MATTHEN

22 Form, Essence, and Explanation in Aristotle's Biology 348

JAMES G. LENNOX

23 Generation of Animals 368

DEVIN M. HENRY

Part IV PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE 385

A. Ethics

24 Happiness and the Structure of Ends 387

GABRIEL RICHARDSON LEAR

25 Pleasure 404

GEORGE RUDEBUSCH

26 Human Excellence in Character and Intellect 419

GAVIN LAWRENCE

27 Courage 442

CHARLES M. YOUNG

28 Justice 457

CHARLES M. YOUNG

29 Friendship 471

MICHAEL PAKALUK

30 Voluntary, Involuntary, and Choice

Georgios Anagnostopoulos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he teaches classical philosophy, ethics and metaphysics. His research has focused on Greek ethics and epistemology and ancient views on the arts and sciences, especially medicine. He is the author of Aristotle on the Goals and Exactness of Ethics (1994).

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