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- He takes psychology to be the branch of science which investigates the soul and its properties, but he thinks of the soul as a general principle of life, with the result that Aristotle's psychology studies all living beings, and not merely those he regards as having minds, human beings.
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Jan 11, 2000 · He takes psychology to be the branch of science which investigates the soul and its properties, but he thinks of the soul as a general principle of life, with the result that Aristotle's psychology studies all living beings, and not merely those he regards as having minds, human beings.
- VICTOR CASTON
- Mental causation and emergentism
- The literalism–spiritualism debate
Aristotle’s psychology – what he calls the “study of the soul” (hE tEs psuchEs historia) – occupies a prominent place both in his own philosophy and in the Western philo-sophical tradition as a whole. In his own system, psychology is the culmination of metaphysics and natural science. For Aristotle, living things are the paradigm of natural objects...
Another objection to functionalism, which has broader ramifications, concerns causa-tion. Aristotle cannot be a functionalist, it is argued, because he regards psychological states and the soul itself as efficient causes. Functionalists, in contrast, locate the real causal power in the underlying material states: for them, it is claimed, causal exp...
The precise implications of these views are, not surprisingly, the subject of consider-able controversy. Some maintain that the sense organ literally takes on the form of the sensible quality it senses, so that, when I look at a rose and then an azure sky, some part of my eyes literally turns crimson first and then azure. Receiving form “without th...
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Method in Psychology. These reflections on method in psychology bring into focus Aristotle’s decision to describe psychic phenomena in terms of his broader explanatory framework: he articulates his account of the soul and its faculties as special cases of his general hylomorphism.
May 23, 2023 · Aristotle is genuinely torn as to how to treat our psychology, which methods are best applied to it, and so on. It is commonplace to observe that Aristotle’s own apparent indecision mirrors that which has come to define the study of the mind in philosophy.
- Luke Dunne
May 6, 2019 · About this book. Follows the way in which Aristotle himself developed his treatment of behavior as one aspect of living things in general, and to show that more recent psychology seems to closely reflect his works.
Aristotle’s treatment of thought is both obscure in itself and hard to reconcile with the rest of his psychology. However, that should not detract from his work on psychology, which is persistently scientific in its approach. Keywords: perception, Plato, possession, psychology, soul, thought.
Philosophy and psychology have always been inseparable, particularly with regard to issues of methodology. The chapter begins with a brief history of the a priori and introspectivist traditions of both, and of the various forms of behaviorism that were a reaction to them.
