The Undivided Self Aristotle and the 'Mind-Body Problem'

by Charles, David

• ISBN13: 9780198882459
• ISBN10: 0198882459
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192640888
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-06-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The Undivided Self aims to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle's account, it is argued, constitutes a philosophically live alternative to conventional post-Cartesian thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. Charles offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.

Author Biography

David Charles, Howard H. Newman Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

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.