Aristotle: On Generation and Corruption Book II: Introduction, Translation, and Interpretative Essays

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Generation and Corruption II is concerned with Aristotle's theory of the elements, their reciprocal transformations and the cause of their perpetual generation and corruption. These matters are essential to Aristotle's picture of the world, making themselves felt throughout his natural science, including those portions of it that concern living things. What is more, the very inquiry Aristotle pursues in this text, with its focus on definition, generality, and causation, throws important light on his philosophy of science more generally. This volume contains eleven new essays, one for each of the chapters of this Aristotelian text, plus a general introduction and an English translation of the Greek text. It gives substantial attention to an important and neglected text, and highlights its relevance to other topics of current and enduring interest.

Panos Dimas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He was the director of the Norwegian Institute at Athens and chairs the Board of the Plato Dialogue Project (PDP), for which he co-edited the two first volumes, on the Philebus and the Statesman. He is currently working on a bigger project on Plato's ethics. Andrea Falcon is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal, and currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan. His books include Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge, 2005) and Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge, 2012). He is the editor of the Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity (2016) and has co-edited (with David Lefebvre) Aristotle's Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2017) and (with Stasinos Stavrianeas) Aristotle on How Animals Move: The De incessu animalium: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays (Cambridge, 2021). SEAN KELSEY is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Mind and World in Aristotle's De Anima (Cambridge, 2021).