General Bibliography: Ancient Greek Science

Ancient Greek Science

Philosophy 6396, Spring 1997

Dr. Cynthia Freeland

743-2993, 402 Agnes Arnold Hall, cfreeland@uh.edu
Note: under construction as of the start of the semester (14 January 1997)

The Presocratics

General Sources (Books)

Jonathan Barnes, Early Greek Philosophy (London: Penguin Books, 1987).
-----The Presocratic Philosophers, 2 Vols. (London: Routledge, 1979).
Patricia Curd, ed., A Presocratics Reader: Selected Fragments and Testimonia, tr. Richard D. McKirahan, Jr. (Indianapolis: Hackett Press, 1995).
David Furley, The Greek Cosmologists, I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Edward Hussey, The Presocratics (London: Duckworth, 1993).
Charles Kahn, Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (New York: , 1960).
G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M. Schofield, eds., The Presocratic Philosophers (2nd Edition) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
G.E.R. Lloyd, Magic, Reason, and Experience: Studies in the origins and development of Greek science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
G.E.R.Lloyd, Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selectetd Papers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
G.E.R. Lloyd, Polarity and Analogy: Two types of argumentation in early Greek Thought (Indianapolis: Hackett Press, 1992/1996).
A.P.D. Mourelatos, ed., The Presocratics: A Collection of Critical Essays ( ).

Articles or Chapters

G.S. Kirk, "Popper on science and the Presocratics," Mind 69: 318-39 (1960).
----"Sense and Common-sense in the development of Greek philosophy," J. Hellenic Studies 81: 105-117 (1961).
G.E.R. Lloyd, from Methods and Problems in Greek Science
"Popper vs. Kirk: A Controversy in the Interpretation of Greek Science," pp. 100-120.
"The Social Background of Early Greek Philosophy and Science," pp. 121-140. "Greek Cosmologies," pp. 141-163.
"The Debt of Greek Philosophy and Science to the Ancient Near East," pp. 278-298.
"The Invention of Nature," pp. 417-434.
G.E.R. Lloyd, from Magic, Reason, and Experience
"Presocratic Natural Philosophy," pp. 139-146.
"Greek Science and Greek Society," pp. 226-267.
Karl Popper, "Back to the Presocratics," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 59: 1-24 (1963) (reprinted in Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, pp. 153-65).

Timaeus

Books

Anne Freire Ashbaugh, Plato's Theory of Explanation: A Study of the Cosmological Account in the Timaeus (Albany, N.Y.: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1988). (See also review by Peter Vernezze, Ancient Philosophy, 1990, pp. 289-92.)

Luc Brisson and F. Walter Meyerstein, Inventing the Universe: Plato's Timaeus, The Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (Albany, N.Y.: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1995).

F. M. Cornford, Plato's Cosmology (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill),1975.

Richard Mohr, The Platonic Cosmology (Leiden: E.J. Brill), 1985. (See also review by E.N. Lee, Ancient Philosophy, 1991, p. 418.)

Gregory Vlastos, Plato's Universe (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975).

Articles

Lynne Ballew, "Straight and Circular in Parmenides and the Timaeus," Phronesis 19 (1987), pp. 189-209.

John Driscoll, "The Platonic Ancestry of Primary Substance," Phronesis 24 (1979), pp. 253-69.

Mary Louise Gill, 'Matter and Flux in Plato's Timaeus," Phronesis 1987, pp. 34-53.

Andrew S. Mason, "Immortality in the Timaeus," Phronesis XXXIXII (1994), pp. 90-97.

K.W. Mills, "Some Aspects of Plato's Theory of Forms: Timaeus 49cff," Phronesis 13 (1968), pp. 145-70.

Richard Mohr, "The Gold Analogy in Plato's Timaeus (50A4-B5)", Phronesis 23 (1978), pp. 243-52.

James V. Robinson, "The Tripartite Soul in the Timaeus," Phronesis XXVII (1990), pp. 103-110.

Steven K. Strange, "The Double Explanation in the Timaeus," Ancient Philosophy 5, pp. 25-39.

John Whittaker, "The 'Eternity' of the Platonic Forms," Phronesis 13 (1968), pp. 131-44.

Plato, Women, and Feminism

Bat-Ami Bar On, ed., Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and Aristotle (Albany: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1994).
Monique Canto, "The Politics of Women's Bodies: Reflections on Plato," pp. 49-65 in Tuana.
Page duBois, "The Platonic Appropriation of Reproduction," pp. 139-56 in Tuana.
Mary F. Lefkowitz and Maureen Fant, eds., Women in Greece and Rome (Toronto and Sarasota: Samuel-Stevens, 1977).
Elizabeth V. Spelman, "Hairy Cobblers and Philosopher-Queens," pp. 89-107 in Tuana.
Nancy Tuana, Ed., Feminist Interpretations of Plato (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1994).
Gregory Vlastos, "Was Plato a Feminist?", pp. 11-23 in Tuana.
Julie Ward, ed., Feminism and Ancient Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996).

Irigaray and French Feminist Readings of Plato's Cosmology, Physics, and Politics

Judith Butler, "Bodies that Matter," from Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex." London and New York: Routledge, 1993.
Anne Carson, "Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire," in Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World, ed. David M. Halperin, John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. .
Lesley Dean-Joanes, "The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science," in Women's History and Ancient History, ed. Sarah B. Pomeroy (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press 1991), pp. 117-92.
Jacques Derrida, "Chora," in Poikila: Etudes offertes a Jean-Pierre Vernant (Paris: EHESS, 1987).
Luce Irigaray, "Plato's Hystera" in Speculum of the Other Woman, Translated Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), pp. 243-364.
Julia Kristeva, "The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives," in Revolution in Poetic Language, tr. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984).

Aristotle's Science

Books

Jonathan Barnes, Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975; revised edition, 1996?.)
-----, with Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji, Articles on Aristotle I: Science. (London: Duckworth, 1975).
Enrico Berti, ed. Aristotle on Science: The Posterior Analytics. (Padua, 1981).
Michael Ferejohn, The Origins of Aristotelian Science. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).
Cynthia Freeland, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle. (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, forthcoming 1998).
Mary Louise Gill and James G. Lennox, eds., Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Allan Gotthelf, ed., Nature and Living Things . (Pittsburgh and Bristol: 1985.)
Allan Gotthelf and James G. Lennox, eds., Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Richard D. McKirahan, Jr., Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Martha Nussbaum, Aristotle's De Motu Animalium: Text with Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).
Pierre Pellegrin, Aristotle's Classification of Animals: Biology and the Conceptual Unity of the Aristotelian Corpus (tr. Anthony Preus). (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
Pierre Pellegrin and Daniel Devereux, eds., Biologie, Logique, et Metaphysique chez Aristote. (Paris: Editions du C.N.R.S., 1990).
William Wians, ed., Aristotle's Philosophical Development: Problems and Prospects. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

Articles

David Balme (1), "The place of biology in Aristotle's Philosophy," in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 9-20.
----- (2) "Aristotle's Biology Was Not Essentialist," in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 291-312.
Jonathan Barnes, "Aristotle's theory of demonstration," in Barnes, Schofield, and Sorabji 1975, pp. 65-87.
Robert Bolton (1), "Definition and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and Generation of Animals," in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 69-89.
----- (2) "Essentialism and Semantic Theory in Aristotle: Posterior Analytics II.7-10," Philosophical Review LXXXV (1976), 515-44.
Sarah Broadie, "Nature and Craft in Aristotelian Teleology," in Biologie, Logique, et Metaphysique..., pp. 389-403.
Myles Burnyeat, "Aristotle on Understanding Knowledge," in Berti 1981, pp. 97-139.
David Charles (1), "Aristotle on Meaning, Natural Kids and Natural History," in Biologie, Logique, et Metaphysique..., pp. 145-167.
(2) -----, "Teleological Causation in the Physics, in Judson, ed., Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays, pp. 101-28.
Alan Code, "The Priority of Final Causes Over Efficient Causes in Aristotle's PA" (Manuscript, n.d.)
Andrew Coles (1), "Biomedical Models of Reproduction in the Fifth Century BC and Aristotle's Generation of Animals," Phronesis, Vol. XL, No. 1, 1995, p. 63)
----- (2), "Demonstrative Explanation in Aristotle's Analytics and his Biology: the Final Cause Syllogistic in A Po II, 11 and Hypothetical Necessity in the Zoology, Manuscript, 1996.
John Cooper (1), "Aristotle on Natural Teleology," pp. 197-222 in Language and Logos, ed. Malcolm Schofield and Martha Nussbaum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
----- (2) "Hypothetical Necessity," in Gotthelf 1985, pp. 151-67.
----- (3) "Hypothetical Necessity and Natural Teleology," in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 243-74.
David J. Depew (1), "Humans and Other Political Animals in Aristotle's History of Animals," Phronesis 1995, Vol. XL/2, pp. 156-181.
----- (2), "The Natural History of the Polis: A Reply to Keyt and Miller" (Manuscript, 1997).
Marguerite Deslauriers, "Sex and Essence in Aristotle's Metaphysics and Biology." Forthcoming in Freeland 1998.
Sophia M. Elliott, "The Female Principle in Aristotle's de Generatione Animalium, Book Four, chapter three" (Manuscript, 1996).
Cynthia A. Freeland (1), "Accidental Causes and Real Explanations in Aristotle," in Aristotle's Physics, ed. Lindsay Judson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. .
-----(2) "Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's De Incessu Animalium (Manuscript, 1996).
----- (3) "Hypotheses, Definitions, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Meteorology" (Manuscript, 1990).
----- (4) "Scientific Explanation and Empirical Data in Aristotle's Meteorology," in Biologie, Logique, et Metaphysique..., pp. 287-299.
David Furley, "Self-Movers," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 3-14.
Mary Louise Gill, "Aristotle on Self-Motion," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 15-34.
Allan Gotthelf (1), "Aristotle's Conception of Final Causality," Review of Metaphysics XXX (1976), pp. 226-54. Reprinted with Postscript in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 204-42.
----- (2) "Data-Organization, Classification, and Natural Kinds: The Place of the History of Animals in Aristotle's Biological Enterprise" (Manuscript from Tokyo semiar, 1994)
----- (3) "The Elephant's Nose: further reflections on the axiomatic structure of biological explanation in Aristotle" (manuscript., n.d.)
----- (4) "First Principles in Aristotle's Parts of Animals, in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 167-198.
Lindsay Judson, "Heavenly Motion and the Unmoved Mover," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 155-71.
Charles Kahn, "The Place of the Prime Mover in Aristotle's Teleology," in Aristotle on Nature and Living Things,, edited by A. Gotthelf (Pittsburgh: Mathesis Publications, 1985), pp. 183-205.
Aryeh Kosman, "Aristotle's Prime Mover," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 135-54.
Wolfgang Kullmann, "Man as a Political Animal in Aristotle," in A Companion to Aristotle's Politics, ed. David Keyt and Fred D. Miller, Jr. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), pp. 94-117.
James G. Lennox (1), "Aristotle's Biological Development: The Balme Hypothesis," in Aristotle's Philosophical Development, pp. 229-247.
----- (2) "Aristotle' Biology: Plain, but not Simple,² Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., Vol. 25, No. 5 (1994), pp. 817-823.
-----(3) "The Disappearance of Aristotle's Biology: A Hellenistic Mystery," Apeiron Vol. 17 No. 4 (1994), pp. 7-24.
-----(4) "Divide and Explain: The Posterior Analytics in Practice, in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 90-119.
-----(5) "Material and Formal Natures in Aristotle's De Partibus Animalium," (proof, forthcoming ??).
-----(6) "Nature does nothing in vain..." (manuscript., n.d.)
-----(7) "Notes on David Charles on HA," in Biologie, Logique, et Metaphysique..., pp. 169-183.
G.E.R. Lloyd, "The Development of Aristotle's Theory of the Classification of Animals," Phronesis 1961; reprinted in Methods and Problems in Greek Science, pp. 1-26.
Gareth Matthews, "Gender and Essence in Aristotle",Australasian Journal of Philosophy Supplement to Vol. 64; June 1986, 16-25.
Susan Sauve Meyer, "Self-Movement and External Causation," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 65-80.
Pierre Pellegrin, "Logical Difference and Biological Difference: The Unity of Aristotle's Thought," in Gotthelf and Lennox 1987, pp. 313-38.
Anthony Preus, "Man and Cosmos in Aristotle: Metaphysics Lambda and the Biological Works," in Pellegrin and Devereux, 1990, pp. 471-90.
Christopher Shields, "Mind and Motion in Aristotle," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 117-34.
Janet Sisson, "Eclipses, Thunder and the Shedding of Leaves: Definition and Demonstration in the Posterior Analytics" (Manuscript, 1996).
Daryl McGowan Tress, "The Metaphysical Science of Aristotle's Generation of Animals and its Feminist Critics," Review of Metaphysics 46 (December 1992), pp. 307-41.
Nancy Tuana, "Aristotle and the Politics of Reproduction" in Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and Aristotle, ed. Bat-Ami Bar On. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
Michael Wedin, "Aristotle on the Mind's Self-Motion," in Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, ed. Gill and Lennox, pp. 81-116.
Charlotte Witt, ""Form, Normativity, and Gender in Aristotle: A Feminist Perspective." Forthcoming in Freeland 1998.