Aristotle's Empiricism
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780197567456
Subjects: Classical philology
Description: 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 al.