Aristotle's Parts of Animals

SOPHIA M. CONNELL is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals (Cambridge, 2016) and Aristotle on Women: Physiology, Psychology and Politics (Cambridge, 2021) and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge, 2021). She has published papers on Aristotle's embryology, psychology and ethics and on women philosophers both ancient and modern.

• Introduction Sophia M. Connell; 1. Situating the parts of animals in Aristotle's biological corpus Myrto Hatzimichali; 2. Rank ordering of skills and sciences in Aristotle's protreptic to biology Monte Ransome Johnson; 3. On the parts of animals: from Aristotle to Michael of Ephesus Giouli Korobili; 4. Teleology and understanding Jessica Gelber; 5. Hylomorphism in de partibus animalium Michail Peramatzis; 6. Animal species in parts of animals book I Devin Henry; 7. Parts and wholes in the Parts of Animals Thomas K. Johansen; 8. Analogical unity and biology kinds in Aristotle's Parts of Animals Christopher Frey; 9. Uniform parts in Aristotle's biology Stasinos Stavrianeas; 10. Blood and animal character in Aristotle's Parts of Animals Sophia M. Connell; 11. Failure in a beautiful world: Aristotle on deformed, useless, and weird parts of animals Mariska Leunissen; 12. Mind's place in Aristotle's science of nature: evidence of Parts of Animals I.1 Mary-Louise Gill; 13. The human body and the role of erect posture. Aristotle's Parts of Animals IV.10 Christof Rapp; 14. The human model: polymorphicity and scientific method in Aristotle's Parts of Animals Emily Kress; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Passages.