Can there be a science of psychology? Aristotle’s de Anima and the structure and construction of science

Manuscrito 42 (4):469-515 (2019)
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This article considers whether and how there can be for Aristotle a genuine science of ‘pure’ psychology, of the soul as such, which amounts to considering whether Aristotle’s model of science in the Posterior Analytics is applicable to the de Anima.

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10.1590/0100-6045.2019.v42n4.rh

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Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: a Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17-8.Breno Zuppolini & David Bronstein - 2023 - In Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 170-190.

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