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98Aristotle on the Sense-OrgansCambridge University Press. 1997.This book offers an important study of Aristotle's theory of the sense-organs. It aims to answer two questions central to Aristotle's psychology and biology: why does Aristotle think we have sense-organs, and why does he describe the sense-organs in the way he does? The author looks at all the Aristotelian evidence for the five senses and shows how pervasively Aristotle's accounts of the sense-organs are motivated by his interest in form and function. The book also engages with the celebrated pr…Read more
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6Hankinson Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought. Oxford UP, 1999. Pp. xiii+ 499. 0198237456Journal of Hellenic Studies 121 179-180. 2001.
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40A triptych in Plato's timaeus: A note on the receptacle passageClassical Quarterly 65 (2): 885-886. 2015.At Timaeus 48e2–52d4 Timaeus sets out to establish that there are three principles or kinds underlying the creation of the cosmos, not just the two he acknowledged earlier. The way he does so is not simply by adding an account of the third kind to the accounts of being and becoming that he has already given. Rather he does so by showing how each of the three differs from the others. It has not been noticed how this procedure structures the receptacle passage. The passage divides up into three pa…Read more
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35J. L. A CKRILL : Essays on Plato and Aristotle . Pp. ix + 231. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Cased, £32.50. ISBN: 0-19-823641- (review)The Classical Review 49 (1): 275-275. 1999.
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32Aristotle on the Common Sense, by Pavel GregoricMind 118 (472): 1138-1141. 2009.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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48Aristotle on the Sense-OrgansPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 89. 2000.Aristotle’s philosophy of mind is often understood as anticipating present-day functionalist approaches to the mental. In Aristotle on the Sense-Organs Johansen argues at length that such interpretations of what Aristotle has to say about the senses are untenable. First, Aristotle does not allow that the matter of a sense-organ can be identified without reference to the form or function of the organ, so sense-organs are not compositionally plastic. Second, Aristotle’s conception of sense-percept…Read more
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