James G. Lennox

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Publications

Ayn Rand Society Philosophical Studies (Currently in process, a volume on Aristotle and Rand)

Darwinism

• 2. Darwin and Darwinism
  • 2.1 Darwin’s Life
  • 2.2 Darwin’s Darwinism
  • 2.3 Philosophical Problems with Darwin’s Darwinism
• 3. The Five Core Philosophical Problems Today
  • 3.1 The Roles of Chance in Evolutionary Theory
  • 3.2 The Nature, Power and Scope of Selection
  • 3.3 Selection, Adaptation and Teleology
  • 3.4 Species and the Concept of ‘Species’

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In his book to issue this spring, James G. Lennox "argues that Aristotle has a richly normative view of scientific inquiry, and that those norms are of two kinds: a general, question-guided framework applicable to all scientific inquiries, and domain-specific norms reflecting differences in the target of inquiry and in the means of observation available to researchers. To see these norms of inquiry in action, the second half of this book examines Aristotle's investigations of animals, the soul, material compounds, the motions of heavenly bodies, and respiration."

That book is Aristotle on Inquiry (Cambridge).

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There is a helpful review of J.G. Lennox's Aristotle on Inquiry here.

Another assistance to prepare for study of Inquiry is an online Lennox article on Aristotle's biology here.

 

Prof. Lennox reviews Michael T. Ferejohn's Formal Causes here.

Edited August 5, 2023 by Boydstun

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I have begun using Lennox's Aristotle on Inquiry here.