Aristotle's empiricism / Marc Gasser-Wingate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasser-Wingate, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception (Philosophy).

Empiricism.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 256 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Though Aristotle is often thought to be an empiricist-someone who thinks all knowledge is somehow derived from perception-the philosopher is often thought to have little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate here offers a sustained examination of these discussions and their epistemological, psychological, and ethical implications. It defends an interpretation of Aristotle as a moderate sort of empiricist, who thinks we can develop sophisticated forms of knowledge by broadly perceptual means, and that we therefore share an important part of our cognitive lives with nonrational animals, but also holds that our intellectual powers allow us to surpass them in certain ways, and develop distinctively human forms of understanding.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Perception, Knowledge, and Understanding in Aristotle's Epistemology

1.1 Aristotle's Epistemic Terminology

1.2 Understanding and Demonstration

1.3 Rationalism and First Principles

1.4 Understanding and Priority

1.5 Understanding and Conviction

1.6 Justification and Epistemic Value in Aristotle

2 Plato and Aristotle on Our Perceptual Beginnings

2.1 Aristotle on Learning

2.2 Perceptual Beginnings: A Platonic View

2.3 Perceptual Beginnings and Our Epistemic Ascent

2.4 Perceptual Foundations and Perception's Epistemic Value

3 Understanding by Induction

3.1 Demonstrative Understanding and νοῦς

3.2 Learning in APo II.19: Some Preliminaries

3.3 Learning in APo II.19: Induction

3.4 The First Stand: Perception to Universal Knowledge

3.5 Subsequent Stands: Universal Knowledge to νοῦς

3.6 Induction and Universal Knowledge

4 Perception and Perceptual Contents

4.1 Perceptual Objects and Contents: A Broad View

4.2 Perception and Rationality: A Nontransformative View

4.3 Perceptual Experience and Conceptual Resources

4.4 Particularity and Universality: APo I.31

4.5 The Perception of Universals

4.6 Discrimination, Recognition, and Compound Universals

5 Perception, Experience, and Locomotion: Aristotle on Nonrational Learning

5.1 Discrimination, Pleasure, and Desire

5.2 Perception and Phantasia

5.3 Animal Experience, Human Experience, and Rationality

6 Perception in Aristotle's Ethics

6.1 Strong Particularism: Ethics and Rules of Conduct

6.3 Perception, Experience, and Practical Wisdom

7 Final Thoughts

Bibliography

Index-Locorum-Aristotle

Index-Locorum-Plato

Index Nominum

Thematic-Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756748-7

0-19-756747-9

OCLC:

1246578959