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Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action.
The Undivided Self argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind, offering a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
List of contents
- 1: The Emotions
- 2: Enmattered Form: Aristotle's Hylomorphism
- 3: Desire and Action
- 4: Taste and Smell: With Some Remarks on Touch
- 5: Hearing, Seeing and Hylomorphism
- 6: Perception, Desire, and Action: Inextricably Embodied Subjects
- 7: Aristotle's Viewpoint
- 8: Aristotle's Undivided Self
About the author
Professor David Charles was a Fellow of Philosophy in Oriel College from 1978 before moving to Yale in 2014 and was a Research Professor in Oxford from 2008 to 2014. He has held Visiting Professorships at Rutgers, UCLA, Brown, Tokyo Metropolitan, Taiwan National and Venice Universities. He was a co-founder of the European Society of Ancient Philosophy and is an Honorary Fellow of the National Technical University of Athens.
Summary
Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. The Undivided Self argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind, offering a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
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the book strikes the reader as an example of how a line of interpretation can be developed into a compelling reading at the hands of a perspicacious scholar. . . . [Charles] offers, in the introduction, different paths of reading his book through its chapters, which makes it all the more appealing to specialists, and to non-specialists as well, in philosophy of mind and ancient philosophy. The range of issues addressed in the volume and its unflagging engagement with these issues will be a source of inspiration to its readers as an example of intellectual courage.
