The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.

Gad Freudenthal offers an original new account of one of Aristotle's central doctrines, his theory of material substance. Freudenthal argues that Aristotle's co

This volume is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, humans) in

Posidonius was a major intellectual figure of the Hellenistic world whose interests and contribution spread over the whole intellectual field: philosophy, histo

This book challenges several widespread views concerning Aristotle's methods and practices of scientific and philosophical research. Taking central topics in ps