Aristotle as an author. An analysis of his 'epistemic writing' within the biological work De generatione animalium

本项目旨在深入分析亚里士多德在他的《动物生成论》（De generone animal）中所体现的表达方式，这是亚里士多德生物学的核心著作，作者试图对生成和遗传现象进行大规模的因果解释。这篇科学散文无论是在语言的运用上还是在推理的思路上都需要仔细研究。目的是研究亚里士多德的文学表现方式如何与论辩结构相对应。这种方法的一个出发点可以从亚里士多德语用论的文学地位的讨论中看到，这一讨论在最近对古代非虚构散文写作的研究中变得尤为重要。正如目前的研究越来越清楚地揭示的那样，实用主义似乎不符合任何简单的分类特征，如“文学与非文学”或德国的“艺术与艺术”。另一个起点在于当前的争论，即亚里士多德实用主义的逻辑结构在多大程度上符合亚里士多德自己在其科学哲学（如《后分析》）中建立的标准。申请人现在想系统地将亚里士多德对动物产生的研究的逻辑和语言学分析结合起来并相互联系起来。在这里，她可能会恢复她自己的一些贡献，这些贡献致力于将语用学视为“认识论写作”过程的产物，在这个过程中，作者产生知识，同时试图有效地将其传达给他的接受者。

This project intends to provide an in-depth analysis of Aristotle's way of presentation as manifest in his De generatione animalium, a work central to Aristotelian biology, wherein the author attempts a large-scale causal explanation of the phenomena of generation and heredity. With regard both to its use of language and to the line of reasoning, this piece of scientific prose is to be scrutinized. The goal is to investigate how the Aristotelian manner of literary representation corresponds to the argumentative structures.A point of departure for this approach is to be seen in the discussion of the literary status of the Aristotelian pragmateiai, a discussion which has become especially important in light of the recent investigation of ancient non-fictional prose writing. As current research is revealing ever more clearly, the pragmateiai appear to defy any simple characterization by categories such as "literary vs. unliterary" or the German "Kunst- vs. Sachprosa". Another starting point lies in the current debate about how far the logical structures of Aristotelian pragmateiai meet the standards Aristotle himself establishes within his philosophy of science, sc. in the Posterior Analytics.The applicant now wants to systematically combine and interrelate logical and philological analysis of Aristotle's study of animal generation. Here she may resume some of her own contributions which undertake to appreciate the pragmateiai as products of a process of 'epistemic writing', wherein the author generates knowledge and at the same time tries to effectively communicate it to his recipients.