Aristotle's Generation of Animals: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

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Preface
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Introduction: Aristotle’s Philosophy and the Generation of Animals
Part I The Unity and Structure of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
	Chapter 1 ‘‘One Long Argument’’?: The Unity of Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
		Introduction
		The Aims of GA
		GA 1: Aristotle’s Initial Move
		GA 2: A Fresh Start? Not Quite
		GA 3
		How Do GA 4 and GA 5 Contribute to the Argument of GA?
			GA 4
			GA 5
	Chapter 2 Parts and Generation: The Prologue to the Generation of Animals and the Structure of the Treatise
		Introduction
		The Prologue to the GA
		PA and GA
		The Problem of the Placement of the Study of the Generative Parts
		Generative Parts and Generation
		The Integration of the Study of the Generative Parts into the Treatise on Generation
			(A = GA 1.1, 715a18–716a2)
			(B = GA 1.2, 716a2–17)
			(C = GA 1.2, 716a17–b12)
			(C = GA 1.3–16)
			(B = GA 1.17–22)
			(A = GA 1.23)
	Chapter 3 Order and Method in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2
		Introduction
		GA 2 and the ‘‘Long Argument’’ of Generation of Animals as a Whole
		Aristotle’s Obsession with the Discovery of Natural Order in GA 2.1–3
		Discovering the Order of Embryogenesis of Live-Bearing Animals in GA 2.4–6
		Concluding Remarks
Part II The Principles of Animal Generation Reconsidered
	Chapter 4 What Is Aristotle’s Generation of Animals About?
		Introduction
		The GA as a Treatise on Generation and Nutrition
		Some Problems with Aristotle’s Theory
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5 Aristotle on Epigenesis: Two Senses of Epigenesis
		Introduction
		Aristotle and Epigenesis-2
		Nature as Craftsman
		The Role of the Environment
		Conclusion
	Chapter 6 A Latent Difficulty in Aristotle’s Theory of Semen: The Homogeneous Nature of Semen and the Role of the Frothy Bubble
		Semen as a Homoeomery and the Weak Aporia
		The Strong Aporia
		Bubble and Fermentation in Timaeus and GA
		Segment of a Circle and Hylomorphism
		Answer to the Strong Aporia
	Chapter 7 Function and Instrument: Toward a New Criterion of the Scale of Being in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
		Introduction
		Scale of Perfection and Quantity of Heat
		Reproduction and Instrumental Cause: The Derivative Good
		Good, Better, and Self-Preservation: To Assimilate the Other to Persist in Actuality
		Conclusion
Part III Hybrids, Male and Female, Particular Forms, and Monsters
	Chapter 8 Hybridity and Sterility in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
		Introduction
		Conditions of Hybridity
		Mules’ Sterility
		Democritus’ and Empedocles’ Theories about Mules
		Hybridity and Heredity
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9 Females in Aristotle’s Embryology
		Introduction
		The Standard Reading
		The Alternative Reading
		A Third Option
		Conclusion
	Chapter 10 Something(s) in the Way(s) He Moves: Reconsidering the Embryological Argument for Particular Forms in Aristotle
		Introduction
		The Embryological Argument and the Issue of Individuating Motions
		Differences between Balme and Cooper
		Objection 1: The Mother Is a Cause of the Same Traits as the Father Causes
		Objection 2: Efficient vs. Formal Causation
		Individuating forms
	Chapter 11 Aristotle’s Explanations of Monstrous Births and Deformities in Generation of Animals 4.4
		Introduction
		Scientific Explanations of Natural Phenomena
		Aristotle on Monsters and Deformed Kinds in GA 4.4
		Explanation and Knowledge in GA 4.4
		Conclusion
Part IV Methodology in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals
	Chapter 12 The Search for Principles in Aristotle: Posterior Analytics 2 and Generation of Animals 1
		Aristotle’s Search for Principles
		Aristotle’s Search for Definitional Principles in APo 2
		Stages of Inquiry in APo 2.1–2
		Stages of Inquiry in APo 2.8
		Stages of Inquiry in APo 2.10
		Aristotle’s Procedures of Inquiry in GA 1
	Chapter 13 Aristotle, Dissection, and Generation: Experience, Expertise, and the Practices of Knowing
		Introduction
		Some (Nondissectional) Background
			Mete. 1.8, 346a32–33 (on the Milky Way)
			Mete. 2.5, 362a35–b20
			Mete. 2.6, 363a26–364a4
			Mete. 3.5, 375b16–377a12 (on Rainbows)
		The Language of the References to the Dissections
			Distribution of Verbs
			Conjoint References to .st..a. and .at.µa
			Prepositions Linking the Verb to the Dissections and Histories
		Focusing on the GA
			GA 1.10, 719a9–10
				Context
				Discussion
			GA 2.4, 740a19–24
				Context
				Discussion
			GA 2.7, 746a9–18
				Context
				Discussion
			GA 4.1, 764a33–b4
				Context
				Discussion
			GA 4.4, 771b27–33
				Context
				Discussion
			GA 5.1, 779a4–11
				Context
				Discussion
		Conclusion
References
General Index
Index of Passages