Reading Aristotle

William Wians, Ph.D., (Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College and adjunct professor at Boston College) writes on ancient philosophy. His edited collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was published by SUNY Press. A second volume is in preparation. Ron Polansky, Ph.D., (Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Duquesne University) has published on Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, and medical ethics, including monographs on Plato’s Theaetetus and Aristotle’s De Anima, and edited collections on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and bioethics. He has edited the journal Ancient Philosophy (Mathesis Publications) for thirty-six years.

• AbbreviationsAbout the ContributorsIntroductionWilliam Wians and Ron Polansky1 Ways of Proving in AristotleMarco Zingano2 Aristotle’s Scientific MethodEdward C. Halper3 Aristotle’s Problemata-Style and Aural TextualityDiana Quarantotto4 Natural Things and Body: The Investigations of PhysicsHelen Lang5 Surrogate Principles and the Natural Order of Exposition in Aristotle’s De Caelo IIMariska Leunissen6 Arrangement and Exploratory Discourse in the Parva NaturaliaPhilip van der Eijk7 The Place of De Motu in Aristotle’s Natural PhilosophyAndrea Falcon8 Is Aristotle’s Account of Sexual Differentiation Inconsistent?William Wians9 The Concept of Ousia in Metaphysics Alpha, Beta and GammaVasilis Politis and Jun Su10 Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a Work of Practical ScienceRon Polansky11 Aristotle on the (Alleged) Inferiority of History to PoetryThornton C. Lockwood12 Aristotle on the Best Tragic Plot: Re-reading Poetics 13–14Malcolm HeathBibliographyIndex