Studies on causation and essentialism in the 'Posterior Analytics'

• Grant number: 15/10372-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 17, 2016
• End date: June 16, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Lucas Angioni
• Grantee: Breno Andrade Zuppolini
• Supervisor: Michail Peramatzis
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Oxford, England
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/26386-2 - Ontological underpinnings of Aristotle's Philosophy of Science, BP.DR

Abstract

Our aim is to analyse two dimensions of the model of demonstrative science that Aristotle develops in the Posterior Analytics. We shall approach those dimensions in two separate, though interconnected, lines of inquiry. In one of them, we intend to set out the connection between the syllogistic structure of Aristotle's model and some of his views on causation. In the other, we shall study the several kinds of per se predication, as Aristotle defines them in the Posterior Analytics, in order to understand how exactly the scientific explanation found in a demonstration is supposed to be essence-based. (AU)