The Undivided Self

Aristotle and the 'Mind-Body' Problem
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-886956-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 634 g

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The aim of this book is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle's account, it is argued, constitutes a philosophically live alternative to conventional post-Cartesian thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. It offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charles, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The Emotions

- 2: Enmattered form: Aristotle's Hylomorphism

- 3: Desire and Action

- 4: Taste and Smell: with some remarks on Touch

- 5: Hearing, Seeing and Hylomorphism

- 6: Perception, Desire and Action: inextricably embodied subjects

- 7: Aristotle's Viewpoint

- 8: Aristotle's Undivided Self

Über Autor(innen)

Professor David Charles was a Fellow of Philosophy in Oriel College from 1978 before moving to Yale in 2014 and was a Research Professor in Oxford from 2008 to 2014. He has held Visiting Professorships at Rutgers, UCLA, Brown, Tokyo Metropolitan, Taiwan National and Venice Universities. He was a co-founder of the European Society of Ancient Philosophy and is an Honorary Fellow of the National Technical University of Athens.