Empirismo, conocimiento previo e inducción en Aristóteles, an. post. A 1
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Fabián Mié
Abstract
I reconstruct Aristotle's epistemology and scientific methodology avoiding some problems which, in my opinion, are attributed to them from inadequate interpretations in terms of foundationalism or coherentism. On the contrary, I credit Aristotle with a hybrid concept of empiricism in which our knowledge is made possible through the integration of two different but cooperative factors: observations and beliefs. By clarifying the implications of Aristotle's concept of experience and the basis for the elaboration of scientific knowledge, I try to give an alternative account of Aristotle's vindication of a positive use of dialectic in science, as well as to show that an integration between dialectical examination of beliefs and scientific analysis of facts is possible and it also gives a plausible methodological image of Aristotle's theory. According to my proposal, some opinions play a conceptual role in the empirical basis of knowledge. But, for Aristotle, this does not amount to any more than a kind of knowledge of the facts, not being equivalent to a scientific knowledge of the causes. Finally, I try to show that within this complex epistemological framework Aristotle's use of induction could also be given an adequate explanation.
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- SOMMARIO
- Ricordo di Francesco Adorno
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- R. Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
- J. Mansfeld-D.T. Runia, Aëtiana. The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, iii: Studies in the Doxographical Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
- G.E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry
- A. Heilmann-Ch. Lohr (Hrsgg.), Dexippus. In defensionem praedicamentorum Aristotelis adversus Plotinum
- INFORMAZIONI
- The World Soul and Cosmic Space
- Errata corrige
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- SOMMARIO DELL'ANNATA 2010
- ELENCHOS
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- SOMMARIO
- Ricordo di Francesco Adorno
- STUDI E SAGGI
- Gorgias en el Banquete de Platón. Ecos del Encomio de Helena en el discurso de Agatón
- Empirismo, conocimiento previo e inducción en Aristóteles, an. post. A 1
- Ancora su Timasagora epicureo
- DISCUSSIONI, NOTE E RASSEGNE
- Se per Platone 9/8 non e un rapporto epimore. Su una curiosa esegesi tecnica del Timeo (Theon. Smyrn. exp. 74, 15-75, 25)
- Il prologo della Lettera a Erodoto di Epicuro: sul testo di Diog. Laert. x 35-7
- RECENSIONI BIBLIOGRAFICHE
- R. Bett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
- J. Mansfeld-D.T. Runia, Aëtiana. The Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer, iii: Studies in the Doxographical Traditions of Ancient Philosophy
- G.E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in Agreement? Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry
- A. Heilmann-Ch. Lohr (Hrsgg.), Dexippus. In defensionem praedicamentorum Aristotelis adversus Plotinum
- INFORMAZIONI
- The World Soul and Cosmic Space
- Errata corrige
- CRITERI REDAZIONALI DELLA RIVISTA
- SOMMARIO DELL'ANNATA 2010
- ELENCHOS
