Aristotle’s scientific inquiries into nature are just as much philosophical inquiries into scientific activity. A guiding motivation of my research is to extract the philosophical innovations that come out of his investigations. I am currently advancing this research primarily by way of a comprehensive project on Aristotle’s treatment of his predecessors and the role the tradition plays in shaping and measuring progress.

Drafts of the following papers are available upon request:

• A paper about Aristotle’s doxographical survey in DA 1.2 (under review)

• A paper about Aristotle’s use of predication and scientific progress (under review)

• A paper about Aristotle’s use of Why-questions in natural science (under review)

• A paper about the reception of Aristotle’s rejection of the elemental soul (under review)

• A paper about the philosophical status of Plato’s account in the Timaeus

• A paper about speaker transitions in Plato’s Republic

• A paper about Aristotle, Bertalanffy, and Biological Processes

• A paper about the explanatory aims and shortcomings of the “counting spoons” analogy