Aristotle on the cognitive powers and bodily organs /
Joseph M. Magee.
Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2003.
1 online resource (xviii, 157 pages)
Contributions in philosophy,
no. 86
0084-926X ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-151) and index.
Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations for Works of Aristotle; 1. Aristotle and Contemporary Theories of Mind; 2. The Separability of Nov? and Cognitivist Functionalism; 3. The Similarities between Nov;? and Sense; 4. The Relationship of Sense Powers to Their Organs; 5. The Difference between Aïs??s?? and Nov?; Bibliography; Index.
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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 se.