Aristotle on perceiving objects
Marmodoro, AnnaAuthor
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 8, 2014).
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.
Aristotle.
Perception (Philosophy)
Philosophy & Religion
Philosophy