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Article: Aristotle's 'Physics': A Collection of Essays.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Judson, Lindsay, ed. Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. x + 286 pp. $65.00--A common theme uniting this excellent collection is that Aristotle in the Physics--both qua scientist and qua philosopher--is worthy of our attention and should be taken seriously. The ten essays, all of them new, cover much of the Physics (though somewhat unevenly: four are on topics from Physics 2). The choice of contributors was excellent. Many have written on similar topics in the past, and have here brought their expertise and insights to bear on the same issues as they appear in the Physics (for example, Robert Bolton on dialectic, David Charles on ...