Jean De Groot is a professor in the school of philosophy at The Catholic University of America, USA. She received her Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University, where she studied the history of early mechanics and wrote her dissertation on ancient optics. She went on to study Neo-Platonism at the University of Paris, attending the seminar of Pierre Hadot, and Aristotelian natural philosophy at the Warburg Institute and the Institute for Classical Studies in London. Since that time, she has taught philosophy courses, focusing on the logic and natural philosophy of Aristotle and twentieth century philosophy of science. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. She and her husband have three daughters.
This book presents an ‘other’ or alternative Aristotle to the caricature and straw man set up through the mistaken Baconian capitulation to Democratean ‘sense data’, a non-empirical ideology that distorts rather than enhances our radical, unavoidable, pre-philosophic experience of power and necessity. This is a revolutionary book that transforms our view of Aristotle and specifically our evaluation of his natural philosophy"". - Heythrop Journal
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