Jason W Carter Aristotle On Earlier Greek Psychology The Science Of Soul | Jason w. carter
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Author: Jason w. carter
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Added Date: 2021-08-19
Publication Date: 1999
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy
Collections: folkscanomy philosophy, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 117.31 MB
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Description
This volume is the first in English to provide a full, systematic
investigation into Aristotle’s criticisms of earlier Greek theories of
the soul from the perspective of his theory of scientific explanation.
Some interpreters of the De Anima have seen Aristotle’s criticisms
of Presocratic, Platonic, and other views about the soul as unfair or
dialectical, but Jason W. Carter argues that Aristotle’s criticisms are in
fact a justified attempt to test the adequacy of earlier theories in terms
of the theory of scientific knowledge he advances in the Posterior
Analytics. Carter proposes a new interpretation of Aristotle’s confrontations
with earlier psychology, showing how his reception of other
Greek philosophers shaped his own hylomorphic psychology and led
him to adopt a novel dualist theory of the soul–body relation. His
book will be important for students and scholars of Aristotle, ancient
Greek psychology, and the history of the mind–body problem.
jason w. carter is Teaching Fellow in philosophy at the University
of Edinburgh. His work has been published in journals including
Phronesis and the Journal of the History of Philosophy.
