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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2025

Robert Roreitner
Robert Roreitner
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Charles University, Prague
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Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. Acknowledgements

  2. List of Abbreviations

  3. Editions Used

  4. Introduction: The Unmoved Causes of Receptivity

    1. 0.1The Nature of Perception

    2. 0.2Aristotle’s Explanatory Project

    3. 0.3The Role of the Soul

    4. 0.4Complete Passive Activities

    5. 0.5Outline and Argument

  5. 1Accounting for Receptivity

    1. 1.1The Passivity of Perception

    2. 1.2Passivity and Preservation

    3. 1.3Passivity, Completeness, and Continued Perceiving

    4. 1.4Aristotle’s Interlocutors

  6. 2The Predecessors’ Dilemma

    1. 2.1Generic Likeness

    2. 2.2Aristotle’s Engagement with LKL

    3. 2.3LKL and the Passivity of Perception

    4. 2.4Another Challenge for LKL

    5. 2.5The Truth of LAL

    6. 2.6The Tense Test Weakened

    7. 2.7Aristotle’s Way Out

  7. 3Complete Passive Activity

    1. 3.1Why Distinctions Are Needed

    2. 3.2The Perceptive Capacity as a Fulfilment

    3. 3.3Kinds of Passivity

    4. 3.4Kinds of Alteration

    5. 3.5Non-Altering Passive Activity

    6. 3.6Activity and Acquisition

    7. 3.7A Programmatic Definition of Perception

  8. 4The Flesh and Bones of Perception

    1. 4.1What Is Achieved in Perceiving

    2. 4.2Perceiving the Bearers of Perceptual Qualities

    3. 4.3Uncompromised Realism

    4. 4.4Perception and Mediation

    5. 4.5The Operation of the Media

    6. 4.6Beyond Spiritualism and Materialism

    7. 4.7Discrimination and the Role of the Perceptive Soul

  9. 5The Passivity of Perception and the Impassive Soul

    1. 5.1An Inconsistent Triad of Tenets?

    2. 5.2The Impassivity of the Perceptive Soul

    3. 5.3Perception Is Not Passive (Alexander of Aphrodisias)

    4. 5.4The Perceptive Soul Is Not Impassive (Themistius)

    5. 5.5The Soul as an Efficient Cause of Perception

  10. 6Perception as a Discriminative Activity

    1. 6.1The Logic of Discrimination

    2. 6.2The Judicial Sense of Perceptual κρίνειν

    3. 6.3Discrimination of the Imperceptible

    4. 6.4Discrimination within the Assimilation Model

    5. 6.5The Discriminative Mean

    6. 6.6The Single Mean and the Core of Perceptual Discrimination

  11. 7Reception of Forms without the Matter and Its Unmoved Causes

    1. 7.1Perceptual Objects as Unmoved Causes

    2. 7.2Homeostasis in Non-Tangible Modalities

    3. 7.3The Agency of the Perceptive Soul

    4. 7.4The Perceptive Soul, Receptivity, and Forms without the Matter

    5. 7.5The Perceptive Soul and Perceptual Objects

  12. Conclusion

  13. AppendixFive Passages Not Implying the Passivity of the Perceptive Soul

  14. References

  15. General Index

  16. Index Locorum

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  • Robert Roreitner, Charles University, Prague
  • Book: Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception
  • Online publication: 01 May 2025
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