Joseph Magee

Unmixing the Intellect (eBook, PDF)

Aristotle on Cognitive Powers and Bodily Organs

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313092923
• Artikelnr.: 37827769

Autorenporträt

JOSEPH M. MAGEE is Director of Campus Ministry at the Catholic Student Center, Sam Houston State University,

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Aristotle and Contemporary Theories of Mind The
Separability of Nous and Cognitivist Functionalism The Similarities between
Novc and Sense The Relationship of Sense Powers to Their Organs The
Difference between Aisthesis and Nous Bibliography Index