Text and Idea of Aristotle's Science of Living Things (TIDA)

Lucas Angioni is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Campinas (Brazil), tenured since 2003. He holds a CNPq Research Productivity Grant (level 1-B) since 2001. He is also leader of the CNPq Research Group MESA (“Metaphysics, Science [and Dialectic] in Aristotle”), based in the University of Campinas. He has been an Academic Visitor in Oxford (Hillary Terms in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, Trinity Term 2015). He was also a Visiting Scholar in Stanford for the Winter Term 2014 and 2015 with Alan Code.

His research area is Ancient Philosophy, especially Aristotle focusing on the following themes: scientific explanation (Posterior Analytics), metaphysics, essentialism, theory of predication, and ethics. He is presently more focused on Aristotle’s theory of scientific explanation in the Posterior Analytics and interrelated subjects. He is also engaged in a long-term investigation into Aristotle’s style, language uses and terminological irregularities. He is also engaged in a long-term project of translating several of Aristotle’s works into Portuguese (Physics I-II has been released in 2009).  

 Representative publications:

1. “Causality and coextensiveness in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics 1.13”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54, 2018, p. 159-185. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825128.003.0005

2. “Aristotle’s definition of scientific knowledge (APo 71b 9-12)”, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 19, 2016 (special issue “Ancient Epistemology”, edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou and Pieter Sjoerd Hasper), p. 79-105. https://doi.org/10.30965/26664275-01901010

3. “Definition and essence in Aristotle’s Metaphysics vii 4”, Ancient Philosophy 34, 2014, p. 75-100.

https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=ancientphil&id=ancientphil_2014_0034_0001_0075_0100

4. “Explanation and Definition in Physics I 1”, Apeiron 34, 2001, p. 307-320.

https://doi.org/10.1515/APEIRON.2001.34.4.307

5. “Sophistical Demonstrations: a class of arguments entangled with false peirastic and pseudographemata”, forthcoming in Melina Mouzala (ed.), Ancient Greek Dialectic, Berlin: Walter De Gruyter.

6. “Demonstration and necessity: a short note on Metaphysics 1015b6-9”, accepted in Archai (forthcoming in 2022).

7. “What Really Characterizes Explananda: Prior Analytics I.30”, Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina 55, p. 147-177, 2019.

8. “Aristotle’s Contrast Between Episteme and Doxa in its Context (Posterior Analytics I.33)”. Manuscrito v. 42, n.4, 2019, p. 157-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2019.v42n4.la

9. “Explanation and method in Eudemian Ethics I.6”, Archai 20, 2017, p. 191-229. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_20_8.

10. “Aristotle on necessary principles and on explaining X through the essence of X”. Studia Philosophica Estonica 7.2, 2014, p. 88-112 (special number on Aristotle and Aristotelian metaphysics).

https://doi.org/10.12697/spe.2014.7.2.06