Cosmology and biology in ancient philosophy : from Thales to Avicenna /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Description:	x, 311 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy, Ancient. Cosmology, Ancient. Biology -- History. Biology. Cosmology, Ancient. Philosophy, Ancient. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12707866

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Other authors / contributors:	Salles, Ricardo, editor.
ISBN:	9781108836579 1108836577 9781108812597 1108812597 9781108873970 9781108870580 (PDF ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	"In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions"--
Other form:	Online version: Cosmology and biology in ancient philosophy Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108873970

Table of Contents:

Souls and cosmos before Plato : five short doxographical studies / André Laks
The ensouled cosmos in Plato's Timaeus : biological science as a guide to cosmology? / Barbara M. Sattler
Platonic 'desmology' and the body of the world animal (Tim. 3oc-34a) / Dimitri El Murr
The world soul takes command : the doctrine of the world soul in the Epinomis of Philip of Opus and in the academy of polemon / John Dillon
Begotten and made : creation as cosmogony in middle Platonism / George Boys-Stones
The De Motu Animalium on the movement of the heavens / John M. Cooper
Biology and cosmology in Aristotle / James G. Lennox
Recapitulation theory and transcendental morphology in antiquity / James Wilberding
The stoics' empiricist model of divine thought / George Boys-Stones
Why is the cosmos intelligent? (2) stoic cosmology and Plato, Timaeus 30a2-cI / Ricardo Salles
Cardiology and cosmology in post-chrysippean stoicism / Emmanuele Vimercati
The agency of the world / Katja Maria Vogt
God and the material world : biology and cosmology in Galen's physiology / R.J. Hankinson
At the intersection of cosmology and biology : Plotinus on nature / Lloyd P. Gerson
Is the heaven an animal? Avicenna's celestial psychology between cosmology and biology / Tommaso Alpina.

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