Aristotle on perception /
Stephen Everson presents a comprehensive new study of Aristotle's account of perception and phantasia. Recent debate about Aristotle's theory of mind has focused on this account, which is Aristotle's most sustained and detailed attempt to describe and explain the behaviour of living t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Language Notes: | Footnotes are in English and Ancient Greek. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Stephen Everson presents a comprehensive new study of Aristotle's account of perception and phantasia. Recent debate about Aristotle's theory of mind has focused on this account, which is Aristotle's most sustained and detailed attempt to describe and explain the behaviour of living things. Everson places it in the context of Aristotle's natural science as a whole, showing how he applies the explanatory tools developed in other works to the study of perceptual cognition. Everson demonstrates that, contrary to the claims of many recent scholars, Aristotle is indeed concerned to explain perceptual activity as the activity of a living body, by reference to material changes in the organs which possess the various perceptual capacities. By emphasizing the unified nature of the perceptual system, Everson is able to explain how Aristotle accounts for our ability to perceive not only such things as colours and sounds but material objects in our environment. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 309 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780198236290 0198236298 9780191597374 0191597376 1281980919 9781281980915 9786611980917 6611980911 0191519057 9780191519055 0198238630 9780198238638 |