On Location Aristotle's Concept of Place

by Morison, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780199247912
• ISBN10: 0199247919
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-25
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This is the first book devoted to a highly significant doctrine in the history of philosophy and science--Aristotle's account of place in the Physics. Morison presents an authoritative analysis and defense of this account of what it is for something to be somewhere, and demonstrates its enduring philosophical interest and value.

Author Biography

Benjamin Morison is Michael Cohen Fellow in Philosophy, Exeter College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

on Location	p. i
Oxford Aristotle Studies	p. ii
On Location	p. iii
Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Places, Natural Places, and the Power of Place	p. 11
Being In	p. 54
Zeno's Paradox of Place	p. 81
Three Possibilities for Place: Matter, Form, and Space	p. 103
Aristotle's Concept of Place	p. 133
Bibliography	p. 175
Index Locorum	p. 185
General Index	p. 189
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