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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154328603321

Autore

Marmodoro Anna

Titolo

Aristotle on perceiving objects

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-934987-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

121/.34092

Disciplina

121.34092

Soggetti

Perception (Philosophy) - History

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.