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Aristotle's Empiricism

Autor Marc Gasser-Wingate
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2021
Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It's not clear, for instance, what perception is supposed to contribute to the more advanced forms of knowledge that derive from it. Nor is it clear how we should understand the nature of its contribution—what it might mean to say that these more advanced forms of knowledge are "derived from" or "based on" what we perceive. Aristotle is often thought to have disappointingly little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate makes the case that this thought is mistaken: a coherent and philosophically attractive view of perceptual knowledge can be found in the various texts in which Aristotle discusses perception's role in animal life, the cognitive resources on which it does and does not depend, and the relation it bears to practical and theoretical modes of understanding. Aristotle's Empiricism 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 these animals in certain ways and thereby develop distinctively human forms of understanding.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197567456
ISBN-10: 0197567452
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 213 x 147 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The book is a guide to Aristotle, but one that differs from more conventional, "rationalist" guides since its starting point is different. And it is not only the author's perspective which differs radically from the prevailing view, but maybe also the motivation behind his writing: by proposing a new reading of Aristotle, he is also restoring some unfortunately forgotten Ancient interpretations and problems.
The book under review is an intelligent and philosophically sophisticated attempt to argue for the view that Aristotle is committed to.
This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rationalism/empiricism debate in Aristotle.

Notă biografică

Marc Gasser-Wingate is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Boston University.