Aristotle's Physics Alpha, 9780198830993
Hardcover
Eleven scholars present a collaborative commentary on the first book of Aristotle’s Physics. This text is central to Aristotle’s studies of the natural world and the principles of physical change. He formulates his theory on the basis of critical examination of hispredecessors’ views, so the book is…

Aristotle's Physics Alpha

Symposium Aristotelicum

  • Hardcover

    388 pages

  • Release Date

    6 June 2019

Summary

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle’s Physics, a central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge of the principles of physical change. Along with the general introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of theAristotelian text and discuss the phil…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198830993
ISBN-10:0198830998
Author:Katerina Ierodiakonou, Paul Kalligas, Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:388
Release Date:6 June 2019
Weight:742g
Dimensions:239mm x 158mm x 26mm
Series:Symposia Aristotelica
About The Author

Katerina Ierodiakonou

Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the University of Geneva. She is also a member of the research programme Representation and Reality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Gothenburg. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currentlyworking on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an edition, translation, and commentary of Theophrastus’ De Sensibus and of Michael Psellos’ paraphrase of Aristotle’s De Interpretatione.Paul (Pavlos) Kalligas is a former Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Athens. He is currently the Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi. His main scholarly project is an edition with translation and commentary of the Enneads of Plotinus into Modern Greek, published by the Academy of Athens; six volumes of this work have appeared so far and an English translation of the commentary is due to bepublished by Princeton University Press. He has also worked and published extensively on Plato, Aristotle, the Sophists, and the history of Platonism. Vassilis Karasmanis is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at theNational Technical University of Athens. He is a specialist in ancient philosophy, ancient science (mainly mathematics), and philosophy of technology. He has published four books and edited another eight (six of them with others), including Remembering Socrates (Oxford 2006, with Lindsay Judson). He has also published fifty two articles in various philosophical journals or collective volumes. Vassilis Karasmanis is an elected member of FISP (International Federation of PhilosophicalSocieties) since 2013.

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