Aristotle on the Common Sense

Aristotle on the Common Sense
Author: Pavel Gregoric
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199277370

Gregoric investigates the Aristolian concept of the common sense, which was introduced to explain complex perceptual operations that can't be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are inactive.

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects
Author: Anna Marmodoro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199326002

"Marmodoro's monograph engages with Aristotle's views on a philosophically challenging question regarding perception, which has been central in the history of philosophy and is very much the focus of current debates in a number of philosophical and psychological disciplines: How do we become perceptually aware of objects in the world? Despite the significance of the question, the ways in which ancient philosophers have addressed it have only just begun to be be explored. There is a great wealth of insight on this question to be found in Aristotle, regarding our ability to perceive items in our environment, which he develops through his very demanding metaphysics, and Marmodo explores these insights in depth here. Aristotle's attempts at accounting for our awareness of complex perceptual content were highly original, drawing on and building on the metaphysics he has developed elsewhere in his works, but have not been adequately explored to date"--

The Senses

The Senses
Author: Fiona Macpherson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0195385969

A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Articles on the Philosophy of the Senses --

The Activity of Being

The Activity of Being
Author: Aryeh Kosman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674075021

Understanding “what something is” has long occupied philosophers, and no Western thinker has had more influence on the nature of being than Aristotle. Focusing on a reinterpretation of the concept of energeia as “activity,” Aryeh Kosman reexamines Aristotle’s ontology and some of our most basic assumptions about the great philosopher’s thought.

Aristotle's Ontology of Change

Aristotle's Ontology of Change
Author: Mark Sentesy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810141906

This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that the analysis of change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, epigenesis, and teleology. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that being is inescapably diverse in kind—is anchored in his argument for the existence of change. Aristotle may be the only thinker to propose a noncircular definition of change. With his landmark argument that change did, in fact, exist, Aristotle challenged established assumptions about what it is and developed a set of conceptual frameworks that continue to provide insight into the nature of reality. This groundbreaking work on change, however, has long been interpreted through a Platonist view of change as unreal. By offering a comprehensive reexamination of Aristotle’s pivotal arguments, and establishing his positive ontological conception of change, Sentesy makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Aristotle, ancient philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

Evil in Aristotle

Evil in Aristotle
Author: Pavlos Kontos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107161975

Provides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.