Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II: Introduction, Translation, and Interpretative Essays - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009239988 ISBN 13: 9781009239981

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Generation and Corruption II, a foundational text, develops Aristotle's theory of the elements, essential for his natural philosophy.

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Panos Dimas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He was the director of the Norwegian Institute at Athens and chairs the Board of the Plato Dialogue Project (PDP), for which he co-edited the two first volumes, on the Philebus and the Statesman. He is currently working on a bigger project on Plato's ethics.

Andrea Falcon is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal, and currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan. His books include Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge, 2005) and Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge, 2012). He is the editor of the Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity (2016) and has co-edited (with David Lefebvre) Aristotle's Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2017) and (with Stasinos Stavrianeas) Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays (Cambridge, 2021).

SEAN KELSEY is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Mind and World in Aristotle's De Anima (Cambridge, 2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009239988
• ISBN 13: 9781009239981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Dimas Panos, Falcon Andrea, Kelsey Sean