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Gill, Mary Louise Glanville was born on July 31, 1950 in Alton, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Glanville and Evalyn Ruth (Pierpoint) Gill.
( This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's...)
This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
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educator of classics and philosophy
Gill, Mary Louise Glanville was born on July 31, 1950 in Alton, Illinois, United States. Daughter of John Glanville and Evalyn Ruth (Pierpoint) Gill.
Bachelor, Barnard College, 1972. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1974. Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1976.
Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1981.
Instructor University Pittsburgh, 1979-1981, assistant professor, 1981-1988, associate professor, 1988-1994, professor, 1994—2001, Brown University, Providence, since 2001. Visiting assistant professor Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1984, Stanford (California) University, 1985. Director program in classics, philosophy, and ancient science University Pittsburgh, 1988-1993.
Visiting scholar Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1989. Visiting associate professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1994. Chair of classics University Pittsburgh, 1994-1997.
Visiting fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge (England) University, 1994. Visiting professor University California, Davis, 1995, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998-1999. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1999-2000.
( This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's...)
Member American Philological Association, American Philosophical Association.