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ARISTOTLE AND THE SCIENCE
OF NATURE
Andrea Falcon’s work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating
the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical
enterprise. In this concise exploration of the significance of the
celestial world for Aristotle’s science of nature, Falcon investigates
the source of discontinuity between celestial and sublunary natures
and argues that the conviction that the natural world exhibits unity
without uniformity is the ultimate reason for Aristotle’s claim that
the heavens are made of a special body, unique to them. This book
presents Aristotle as a totally engaged, systematic investigator whose
ultimate concern was to integrate his distinct investigations into a
coherent interpretation of the world we live in, all the while mindful
of human limitations to what can be known. Falcon reads in Aristotle
the ambition of an extraordinarily curious mind and the confidence
that that ambition has been largely fulfilled.
andrea falcon is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of
Corpi e movimenti: Il De caelo di Aristotele e la sua fortuna nel mondo
antico (2001).
ARISTOTLE AND THE
SCIENCE OF NATURE
Unity without Uniformity
ANDREA FALCON
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