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"A Companion To Aristotle" Review, Julie Ponesse
"A Companion To Aristotle" Review, Julie Ponesse
Julie E Ponesse
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"Techne In Aristotle's Ethics: Crafting The Moral Life" Review, Julie E. Ponesse
"Techne In Aristotle's Ethics: Crafting The Moral Life" Review, Julie E. Ponesse
Julie E Ponesse
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Aristotle’S Pluralistic Realism, Devin Henry
Aristotle’S Pluralistic Realism, Devin Henry
Devin Henry
In this paper I explore Aristotle’s views on natural kinds and the compatibility of pluralism and realism, a topic that has generated considerable interest among contemporary philosophers. I argue that, when it came to zoology, Aristotle denied that there is only one way of organizing the diversity of the living world into natural kinds that will yield a single, unified system of classification. Instead, living things can be grouped and regrouped into various cross-cutting kinds on the basis of objective similarities and differences in ways that subserve the explanatory context. Since the explanatory aims of zoology are diverse and variegated, …