Form Without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015)
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Abstract

Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study of perception, taking as its starting point a puzzle in Empedocles' theory of vision: if perception is a mode of material assimilation, how can we perceive colors at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in answer to the puzzle is both attractive and defensible

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