This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biolog

This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the st

Aristotle's voluminous writings on animals have often been marginalised in the history of philosophy. Providing the first full-length comprehensive account of A

An overview of biology and philosophy is followed by three sections on individual issues definition and demonstration, teleology and necessity in nature, and me

In Aristotle's teleological view of the world, natural things come to be and are present for the sake of some function or end (for example, wings are present in