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Morrison, Benjamin. On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20040601
Author:Upton, Thomas V.

MORRISON, Benjamin. On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place. Oxford Aristotle Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. viii + 194 pp. Cloth, $45.00--This book is a revised version of Morrison's doctoral thesis. Unlike many revised theses, however, this book is very readable and clearly presented. Against the common, predominately negative view of Aristotle's notion of place, this book takes a positive approach to place and has as its explicit aim to set out clearly Aristotle's account of place in Physics 4.1-5 in such a way as to revive it as a piece of genuinely important ...

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