Aristotle's Physics

The Physics is one of Aristotle''s masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works including method causation and explanation chance teleology the infinite the nature of time the critique of atomism the role of mathematics in Aristotle''s physics and the concept of self-motion. The essays offer fresh approaches to Aristotle''s work in these areas and important new interpretations of his thought.