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Aristotle (b. 384 – d. 322 BCE), was a Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist. Along with his teacher Plato, Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential ancient thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory. Aristotle was born in Stagira in ...

Fred Miller

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-politics/

Aristotle's Psychology

Aristotle (384–322 BC) was born in Macedon, in what is now northern Greece, but spent most of his adult life in Athens. His life in Athens divides into two periods, first as a member of Plato's Academy (367–347) and later as director of his own school, the Lyceum (334–323). The ...

Christopher Shields

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-psychology/

Aristotle's Categories

Aristotle's Categories is a singularly important work of philosophy. It not only presents the backbone of Aristotle's own philosophical theorizing, but has exerted an unparalleled influence on the systems of many of the greatest philosophers in the western tradition. The set of doctrines in the Categories, ...

Paul Studtmann

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-categories/

Aristotle's Metaphysics

The first major work in the history of philosophy to bear the title “Metaphysics” was the treatise by Aristotle that we have come to know by that name. But Aristotle himself did not use that title or even describe his field of study as ‘metaphysics’; the name was evidently ...

S. Marc Cohen

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-metaphysics/

Aristotle on Non-contradiction

According to Aristotle, first philosophy, or metaphysics, deals with ontology and first principles, of which the principle (or law) of non-contradiction is the firmest. Aristotle says that without the principle of non-contradiction we could not know anything that we do know. Presumably, we could ...

Paula Gottlieb

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-noncontradiction/

Aristotle on Causality

Each Aristotelian science consists in the causal investigation of a specific department of reality. If successful, such an investigation results in causal knowledge; that is, knowledge of the relevant or appropriate causes. The emphasis on the concept of cause explains why Aristotle developed a theory ...

Andrea Falcon

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-causality/

Aristotle

Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied ...

Christopher Shields

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle/

Aristotle and Mathematics

Aristotle uses mathematics and mathematical sciences in three important ways in his treatises. Contemporary mathematics serves as a model for his philosophy of science and provides some important techniques, e.g., as used in his logic. Throughout the corpus, he constructs mathematical arguments for ...

Henry Mendell

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-mathematics/

Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

Aristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature. He investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena across different kinds of natural entities. These different ...

Istvan Bodnar

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-natphil/

Commentators on Aristotle

One important mode of philosophical expression from the end of the Hellenistic period and into Late Antiquity was the philosophical commentary. During this time Plato and Aristotle were regarded as philosophical authorities and their works were subject to intense study. This entry offers a concise ...

Andrea Falcon

http://www.science.uva.nl/~seop/entries/aristotle-commentators/

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