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<p class="p1" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">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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<span class="outlook-search-highlight"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">As</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">sociate Professor Timothy Clarke (Yale University) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">‘<span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Nature</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Demiurge</span>’
(<span class="outlook-search-highlight">abstract</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">below</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Timothy Clarke is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">As</span>sociate Professor of Philosophy and Cl<span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span>sics
at Yale University. He is the author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight"><i>Aristotle</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>and the Eleatic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">On</span>e<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Oxford
University Press, 2019) and recent articles<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>political justice in Plato’s <i>Republic</i>, the defence of the principle of
n<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>-c<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>tradicti<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span>’s <i>Metaphysics</i>,
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span>’s ‘third man’ argument against Plat<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>ic forms.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Wednesday 14 May 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="outlook-search-highlight"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">Abstract</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121">: The principle that ‘<span class="outlook-search-highlight">nature</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>does
nothing in vain’ is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>e of the guiding principles of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span>’s natural philosophy.
The standard view in c<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>temporary scholarship h<span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>been that the principle should be interpreted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a
generalizati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>over the individual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">nature</span>s of particular substances, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>claiming
that, in the process of development, these individual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">nature</span>s operate so<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to
bring about the best results for the substances in questi<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>. The motivati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for this interpretati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
that (1) there is no place in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span>’s metaphysics for a single, demiurgic ‘<span class="outlook-search-highlight">Nature</span>’ that is resp<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>sible
for the creati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of natural substances; and (2)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>clearly
thinks of individual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">nature</span>s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">nature</span>s’
interpretati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is unable to account for all of the ways in which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">Aristotle</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>puts
the principle to work. My aim is to defend an interpretati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>which fits the full range of explanatory c<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>texts in which the
principle is deployed, and then to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="outlook-search-highlight">as</span>k about the broader implicati<span class="outlook-search-highlight">on</span>s for how we should think about the character of Aristotelian
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