Aristotle's Psychology

A Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 316-346

  Caston, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristotle's psychology; Aristotle's psychology, what he calls as the "study of the soul"; Body and soul, conjoining of matter and form for the existence of the individual; Downward causation as compatible with functionalism, being compatible with supervenience; Functionalism, mental state and functional role, constraining the states playing it; Functionalism, the Ramsey Lewis method, of causal relations to one another; Soul body relation, central concepts of Aristotle's metaphysics; The soul, as activities peculiar to living things

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EID: 84885517775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305845.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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