Formal and Ontological Aspects of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science

• Grant number: 11/14898-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Lucas Angioni
• Grantee: Breno Andrade Zuppolini
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/04519-0 - Causality, scientific explanation and syllogistic in Aristotle’s posterior analytics, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Aristotle's theory of demonstration, developed in the Posterior Analytics, is not restricted to determine the formal requirements for formulating probative arguments which establish properly the results of scientific investigation. To the probative aspect of demonstration it shall be added its primarily explanatory character, orientated by theses of strong ontological and metaphysical content, which involve notions like substance, essence and causality. I intend to analyze the relation between those two ranges of Aristotle's philosophy of science and investigate in which way the formal characteristics of demonstration (like its syllogistic form, the coextension of its terms and the necessity of its propositions) maintain an affinity with the metaphysical background to which scientific activity is conditioned.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ZUPPOLINI, Breno Andrade. Formal and ontological aspects of Aristotle's philosophy of science. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.