| FT-54872-07 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | John Francis Bowin | The Philosophical Uses of the Concept of Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators | 6/1/2007 - 9/30/2007 | $5,000.00 | John | Francis | Bowin | | | | Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz | CA | 95064-1077 | USA | 2007 | History of Philosophy | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
I propose to revise and substantially expand my doctoral dissertation into a book, entitled "The Philosophical Uses of the Concept of Potentiality in Aristotle and his Commentators." I am now working on three papers for publication, based on the material in my dissertation. They consist of (1) A paper arguing that Aristotle's concept of potentiality can form a non-circular basis for the arrow of time; (2) a paper which brings out certain neglected features of Aristotle’s view of potential infinity; (3) a paper on persistence through change, which develops a neglected puzzle about motion in Aristotle's Physics. The book will take up a common theme in these papers and analyze its development in the hands of Aristotle’s later commentators. |