Reading Aristotle: Physics Vii.3: "what Is Alteration?"
by Carlo Natali /
2012 / English / PDF
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This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference
on "Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration?", which took
place in Vitznau, Switzerland, 12–15 February 2007. The
contributors are part of a team of Aristotelian scholars who
came together for the first time in 1995, and have since been
meeting every spring. The purpose of their gatherings is to
read and interpret line by line a short, but important chapter
of Aristotle's works. In this way, attention is focussed on key
texts of particular exegetic and theoretical interest. Each
session starts with the presentation of a translation and a
first analysis of the main problems; these then become the
subject of an intense debate which illustrates the different
schools of thought and methodological approaches. Over the
years, the confrontation of these different points of view has
had a beneficiary effect on scholarship and has stimulated
research activity worldwide. On the occasion of the Vitznau
meeting in 2007, it was decided for the first time to publish
the results of the meeting in order to make them accessible to
a wider public of scholars and students. The present volume is
the fruit of this common effort.
This volume presents the results of the ESAP-HYELE conference
on "Aristotle, Physics 7.3: What is Alteration?", which took
place in Vitznau, Switzerland, 12–15 February 2007. The
contributors are part of a team of Aristotelian scholars who
came together for the first time in 1995, and have since been
meeting every spring. The purpose of their gatherings is to
read and interpret line by line a short, but important chapter
of Aristotle's works. In this way, attention is focussed on key
texts of particular exegetic and theoretical interest. Each
session starts with the presentation of a translation and a
first analysis of the main problems; these then become the
subject of an intense debate which illustrates the different
schools of thought and methodological approaches. Over the
years, the confrontation of these different points of view has
had a beneficiary effect on scholarship and has stimulated
research activity worldwide. On the occasion of the Vitznau
meeting in 2007, it was decided for the first time to publish
the results of the meeting in order to make them accessible to
a wider public of scholars and students. The present volume is
the fruit of this common effort.
