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Aristotle on perceiving objects / Anna Marmodoro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perception (Philosophy)--History.
- Perception (Philosophy).
- Aristotle.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 291 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How can we explain the structure of perceptual experience? What is it that we perceive? How is it that we perceive objects and not disjoint arrays of properties? By which sense or senses do we perceive objects? This book investigates Aristotle's views on these and related questions.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The metaphysical foundations of perception
- Aristotle's causal powers theory of perception
- Aristotle's subtle perceptual realism
- The problem of complex perceptual content
- Unity of subject, operation, content, and time
- Mixing the many and partitioning the one
- One and many perceptual faculties
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 8, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-934987-8
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