In recent years the majority of scholarship on Aristotle's philosophy of mind has concentrated on his account of sensation and has generally sought to find in his ancient account insights applicable to contemporary materialistic explanations of mental life. Challenging cognitivist and functionalist interpretations, this volume argues that Aristotle believed the mind to be unmixed, or separate from the body. Through careful textual analysis of De Anima and other key texts, the author shows that the Greek philosopher made a clear distinction between perception-an activity realized in material sense organs-and thinking-a process that cannot occur in any material organ. This innovative interpretation of Aristotle's theory of cognitive activities is a worthy contribution to an ongoing debate.
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Analyzes Aristotle's doctrine of the intellect and sensation.
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JOSEPH M. MAGEE is Director of Campus Ministry at the Catholic Student Center, Sam Houston State University,
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In order to evaluate the various interpretations of Aristotle's theory of mind that are the focus of this book, it is necessary to get an overview of the contemporary theories of mind that influence and shape these interpretations of Aristotle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal reception thesis, likeness thesis, intense perceptibles, intense sensibles, ordinary alteration, judges flesh, weak separation, functionalist description, being unmixed, noetic activities, strong separation, intense objects, form without matter, sensitive faculty, given mental state, productive mind, identity thesis, undergoes alteration, reductive materialism, proper sensibles, sensible qualities, material disposition, other mental states, literalist interpretation, bent line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clarendon Press, Aristotle's De Anima, Oksenberg Rorty, Thomas Aquinas, Deborah Modrak, Harvard University Press, Richard Sorabji, Ned Block, Howard Robinson, New York, Opera Omnia, Oxford University Press, Philosophy of Psychology, Propoganda Fide, Stephen Everson, The Nous-body Problem, Cambridge University Press, Charles Kahn, Hilary Putnam, Marc Cohen, Posterior Analytics, Sentencia Libri De Anima, The Distinction According New!
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In order to evaluate the various interpretations of Aristotle's theory of mind that are the focus of this book, it is necessary to get an overview of the contemporary theories of mind that influence and shape these interpretations of Aristotle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal reception thesis, likeness thesis, intense perceptibles, intense sensibles, ordinary alteration, judges flesh, weak separation, functionalist description, being unmixed, noetic activities, strong separation, intense objects, form without matter, sensitive faculty, given mental state, productive mind, identity thesis, undergoes alteration, reductive materialism, proper sensibles, sensible qualities, material disposition, other mental states, literalist interpretation, bent line Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clarendon Press, Aristotle's De Anima, Oksenberg Rorty, Thomas Aquinas, Deborah Modrak, Harvard University Press, Richard Sorabji, Ned Block, Howard Robinson, New York, Opera Omnia, Oxford University Press, Philosophy of Psychology, Propoganda Fide, Stephen Everson, The Nous-body Problem, Cambridge University Press, Charles Kahn, Hilary Putnam, Marc Cohen, Posterior Analytics, Sentencia Libri De Anima, The Distinction According New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Aristotle on Perception (Clarendon Aristotle Series) by Stephen Everson on 6 pages
- On The Soul by Aristotle on 5 pages
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 5 pages
- Aquinas on Mind and Intellect: New Essay by Hackett Jeremiah on 4 pages
- Mind and Imagination in Aristotle by Michael V. Wedin on 4 pages
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