Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible?

In Martha C. Nussbaum & Amélie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's de Anima. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK (1992)
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This essay argues that the Putnam-Nussbaum thesis that modern functionalism is Aristotelian is false. It fails as an interpretation of Aristotle since it fails to notice that Aristotle’s conception of the material or physical side of the soul-body relation is one which no modern functionalist could share. The Putnam-Nussbaum thesis is examined within the context of the theory of perception. This involves the need to understand one of the most mysterious Aristotelian doctrines – the doctrine that in perception, the sense-organ assumes the sensible form of the object perceived without its matter.

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reprint Burnyeat, Myles (1992) "Is an Aristotelian Philosophy of Mind Still Credible? (A Draft)". In Nussbaum, Martha Craven, Rorty, Amélie, Essays on Aristotle's De anima, pp. 15-26: Oxford University Press (1992)

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