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Article: Lennox, James G. Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2003
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Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxiii + 321 pp. Cloth, $64.95--Among the more important contributions to late twentieth-century Aristotle studies was Pierre Pellegrin's La Classification des animaux chez Aristote: Statut de ia biologie et unite: de l'aristotelisme, which appeared in 1982. This revisionist reading of the Historia, a animalium not only directed scholarly attention to Aristotle's hitherto little-studied biological works, but it also discouraged the attempt to understand these works solely in terms of developments in modern biology. The result was a flurry of activity on the part of scholars who ...
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