Essays on Aristotle's De anima / edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-

Rorty, Amélie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De anima.

Aristotle.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

viii, 453 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press : Oxford, [1996]

Summary:

Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.

Contents:

/ G.E.R. Lloyd

Dialectic, motion, and perception : De Anima, Book 1 / Charlotte Witt

De Anima 2. 2-4 and the meaning of life / Gareth B. Matthews

Intentionality and physiological processes : Aristotle's theory of sense-perception / Richard Sorabji

Aristotle on the sense of touch / Cynthia Freeland

Aristotle on the imagination / Malcolm Schofield.

The cognitive role of Phantasia in Aristotle / Dorothea Frede

Aristotle on memory and the self / Julia Annas

Nous poiētikos : survey of earlier interpretations / Franz Brentano

What does the maker mind make? / L.A. Kosman

Aristotle on thinking / Charles H. Kahn

Desire and the good in De Anima / Henry S. Richardson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-419) and indexes.

ISBN:

019823600X

OCLC:

34234492