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

• A paper about Aristotle’s use of predication and scientific progress

• A paper about Aristotle’s use of Why-questions in natural science

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

• A paper about Adeimantus’ role in Plato’s Republic (specifically, Rep. 8-9)

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