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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP) at the University of Notre Dame Australia warmly invites you to our next Research Seminar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Associate Professor Timothy Clarke (Yale University) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘Aristotle on Nature as Demiurge’ (abstract below)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Timothy Clarke is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University. He is the author of
<i>Aristotle and the Eleatic One </i>(Oxford University Press, 2019) and recent articles on political justice in Plato’s <i>Republic</i>, the defence of the principle of non-contradiction in Aristotle’s <i>Metaphysics</i>, and Aristotle’s ‘third man’ argument
against Platonic forms.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday 14 May 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ujrtC81V0PTYYzzj1UnfGfy0_mJ?domain=notredame-au.zoom.us">https://notredame-au.zoom.us/j/83276519915</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstract: The principle that ‘nature does nothing in vain’ is one of the guiding principles of Aristotle’s natural philosophy. The standard view in contemporary scholarship has
been that the principle should be interpreted as a generalization over the individual natures of particular substances, and as claiming that, in the process of development, these individual natures operate so as to bring about the best results for the substances
in question. The motivation for this interpretation is that (1) there is no place in Aristotle’s metaphysics for a single, demiurgic ‘Nature’ that is responsible for the creation of natural substances; and (2) Aristotle clearly thinks of individual natures
as efficient causes of biological processes (playing a causal role analogous to that of the builder’s craft in the process of building a house). Despite its plausibility, however, the ‘individual natures’ interpretation is unable to account for all of the
ways in which Aristotle puts the principle to work. My aim is to defend an interpretation which fits the full range of explanatory contexts in which the principle is deployed, and then to ask about the broader implications for how we should think about the
character of Aristotelian natural teleology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of David Charles</span></i><span style="color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> (OUP)</span></a></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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and Essence from Aristotle to Kant </span></i><span style="color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(Routledge)</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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