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|Brief=an Ancient Greek philosopher who together with Socrates and his teacher Plato laid much of the groundwork for western philosophy and science|Summary=Aristotle wrote on a broad range of topics encompassing what we would now call physics, ethics, biology, theatre, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, logic, zoology, metaphysics, and aesthetics. Those topics most relevant to issues of scientific change are his theory of causation, theories on metaphysics, and his method of science, which was based on intuition schooled by experience.|Historical Context=Aristotle was born in Stagira, Chalkidice in central Macedonia in 384 BC. He was raised by Proxenus of Atarneus following his father's death [[CiteRef::During (1957)|pp. 253]] At the age of 17 or 18, Proxenus sent Aristotle to Athens to pursue a higher education. There, he joined Plato’s Academy and remained until the age of thirty-seven (347 BC). In that year, his teacher and great philosophical companion, Plato, died. Because of the many disputes between the two, Aristotle did not receive directorship of Plato’s Academy.[[CiteRef::Biography.com Editors (2017)]] He returned home to Macedonia, and became a tutor to King Philip II of Macedon's son Alexander. Upon succeeding his father as king, Alexander won the appellation 'Alexander the Great' for his military conquests [[CiteRef::Biography.com Editors (2017)]][[CiteRef::Shields (2016)]] After conquering Aristotle's former home; Athens, Alexander helped Aristotle him found the Lyceum as a school and library, where most of his works would be stored. Aristotle's students at the Lyceum, eventually became known as the Peripatetics.[[CiteRef::Shields (2016)]] When the The pro-Macedonian government of Athens was overthrown in 323 BC. Because of his ties to Alexander, Aristotle was forced to flee to Chalcis on the Greek island of Euboea where he died a year later at the age of 62.