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56Aristotle on Imagination and Action: IntroductionDialogue 29 (1): 3-. 1990.In recent years, Aristotle's treatment of the imagination has become the subject of renewed interest. A pioneering paper by Malcolm Schofield argued that, far from being the rag-bag of widely separate and more or less unrelated concerns that it had previously been generally taken to be, phantasia was, for Aristotle, a ‘loose-knit family concept’ covering all aspects of what Schofield labelled ‘non-paradigmatic sensory experience’. With that conclusion I am more or less in agreement, although onl…Read more
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59Aristotle on Moral Responsibility Susan Sauvé Meyer Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, xii + 210 pp., $49.95 (review)Dialogue 36 (3): 636-. 1997.
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2Terry Penner and Richard Kraut, eds., Nature, Knowledge and Virtue: Essays in Memory of Joan Kung Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (5): 353-355. 1991.
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51Character and Explanation in Aristotle's Ethics and PoeticsDialogue 29 (1): 79-. 1990.Aristotle discusses character in four contexts: ethics, poetic theory, the study of rhetoric and zoology. What he means by character is different in each of these cases, but not radically different. He always uses it as a device to explain actions or behavioural patterns: in animals, in people, and in fictional people. The similarities between the character exhibited by different species, moral character, and tragic character have gone unexamined. As a result, the notion of character as explanat…Read more
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25Aristotle (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (2): 391-392. 1983.Aristotle is presented, in this introduction to his work, as a scientist and a philosopher of science. This view is developed through the structure of the book, which emphasizes Aristotle's methodological concerns as a scientist, and through the no-nonsense interpretation of Aristotle's thought that it offers. Barnes particularly wants to impress on the reader the range of Aristotle's interests. He stresses that it is the empirical foundation of almost all the treatises that gives unity to their…Read more
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