Ever since Galileo attacked Aristotle's view of the world, the Greek philosopher's ideas have been regarded as a barrier to scientific progress. Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees. In the spring of 1998 ...
THE review of Prof. Duhem's new book, “Le Systéme du Monde,” over the initials, J. L. E. D., in NATURE of May 28, contains what purports to be a correct and intelligible summary of Aristotle's ...
Aristotle famously distinguishes between merely doing a virtuous action and acting in the way in which a virtuous person would. Against an interpretation prominent in recent scholarship, I argue that ...
Revue de Philosophie Ancienne Vol. 36, No. 2, 2018 MEANING AND FUNCTION OF ARISTOTLE’S TWO DEFINITIONS OF NATURE (PHYSICS B, 192b8-193a9), PHYSICS B, AND HIS BIOLOGY This is the metadata section. Skip ...
CAPT. HARDCASTLE's authentic quotations from Aristotle are most interesting. May I as a teacher emphasise the fact that terminal velocity is the best instance of Newton's first law of motion in actual ...