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24Ancient and Medieval Theories of IntentionalityBrill. 2001.This volume, including sixteen contributions, analyses ancient and medieval theories of intentionality in various contexts: perception, imagination, and intellectual thinking. It sheds new light on classical theories and examines neglected sources, both Greek and Latin
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10Aristotle's PsychologyIn Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, Northwestern University Press. 2018.This chapter contains sections titled: The Soul–Body Relation Perception Phantasia Thought Bibliography.
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Perception in ancient Greek philosophyIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Perception, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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5Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 58 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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20Theophrastus on PerceivingRhizomata 7 (2): 188-225. 2020.Many fragments from Theophrastus on perception are preserved by the late Neoplatonist, Priscian of Lydia. After preliminary source criticism concerning how to identify the fragments, I turn to Theophrastus’ discussion of perceiving and perceptual awareness. While he clearly rejects literalism, he also does not embrace “spiritualism”: he argues instead that we receive the defining proportions of perceptible qualities in the sense organ, though in different contraries than in the perceptible (ther…Read more
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 57 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 56 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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4Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 55 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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3Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 54 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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87Aristotle on the Reality of Colors and Other Perceptible QualitiesRes Philosophica 95 (1): 35-68. 2017.Recent interpreters portray Aristotle as a Protagorean antirealist, who thinks that colors and other perceptibles do not actually exist apart from being perceived. Against this, I defend a more traditional interpretation: colors exist independently of perception, to which they are explanatorily prior, as causal powers that produce perceptions of themselves. They are not to be identified with mere dispositions to affect perceivers, or with grounds distinct from these qualities, picked out by thei…Read more
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2Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 53 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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2Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 52 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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87Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color PerceptionPhilosophical Review 126 (3): 385-389. 2017.
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3Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 51 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
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2Aristotle on IntentionalityDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 1992.There is widespread agreement today that the problem of intentionality--roughly, the problem of how mental states can be "directed at an object" or have content--constitutes one of the central and abiding difficulties in the philosophy of mind. What is not widely recognized is that the ancient Greeks had a great deal to say about the topic. Contemporary discussions most often begin with the work of the nineteenth century philosopher, Franz Brentano; but Brentano himself did not regard his idea a…Read more
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35Presocratic philosophy: essays in honour of Alexander Mourelatos (edited book)Ashgate. 2002.This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship. A wide range of topics are covered - from the metaphysical to the moral to the methodological - as well as a broad a range of authors: from recognized figures such as Heraclitus and Parmenides to Sophistic thinkers whose place has traditionally been marginalized, such as Gorgias and the author of the Dissoi Logoi. Several of the pieces are concerned with the later reception and influence of the Presocr…Read more
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17Colloquium 6Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 9 (1): 213-245. 1993.
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1Towards a History of the Problem of Intentionality among the GreeksProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 9 213-245. 1993.
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16Phantasia and ThoughtIn Georgios Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 322-34. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Phantasia Thought Notes Bibliography.
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24Commentary on MillerProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 15 (1): 214-230. 1999.
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69Aristotle on Perceiving Objects by Anna MarmodoroJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (4): 776-777. 2015.The study of Aristotle’s psychology has long been dominated by metaphysical concerns, centering above all on the relation between the soul and the body. For centuries, this was inevitable, given the widespread preoccupation with immortality and considerable puzzlement as to whether Aristotle’s views about the intellect committed him to it or not. But in the twentieth century the soul-body relation has continued to be the main focus, even when talking about perception. The debate over perception …Read more
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171Aristotle's Two Intellects: A Modest ProposalPhronesis 44 (3): 199-227. 1999.In "De anima" 3.5, Aristotle argues for the existence of a second intellect, the so-called "Agent Intellect." The logical structure of his argument turns on a distinction between different types of soul, rather than different faculties within a given soul; and the attributes he assigns to the second species make it clear that his concern here -- as at the climax of his other great works, such as the "Metaphysics," the "Nicomachean" and the "Eudemian Ethics" -- is the difference between the human…Read more
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35Review of Dorothea Frede (ed.), Brad Inwood (ed.), Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (5). 2006.
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38Colloquium 5Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 16 (1): 135-175. 2000.
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42Aristotle and the Problem of IntentionalityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (2): 249-298. 1998.Aristotle not only fonnulates the problem of intentionality explicitly, he makes a solution to it a requirement for any adequate theory of mind. His own solution, however, is not to be found in his theory of sensation, as Brentano and others have thought. In fact, it is precisely because Aristotle regards this theory as inadequate that he goes on to argue for a distinct new ability he calls “phantasia.” The theory of content he develops on this basis (unlike Brentano’s) is profoundly naturalisti…Read more
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2TK Johansen, Aristotle on the Sense-Organs Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (2): 127-129. 2001.
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1Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander MourelatosPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (219): 356-358. 2005.
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201Epiphenomenalisms, ancient and modernPhilosophical Review 106 (3): 309-363. 1997.This debate, I shall argue, has everything to do with Aristotle. Aristotle raises the charge of epiphenomenalism himself against a theory that seems to have close affinities to his own, and he offers what has the makings of an emergentist response. This leads to controversy within his own school. We find opponents ranged on both sides, starting with his own pupils, several of whom are stout defenders of epiphenomenalism, and culminating in the developed emergentism of later commentators. Aristot…Read more
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