Form without matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on color perception

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 colours at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in a...

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Main Author: Kalderon, Mark Eli 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2015
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary: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 colours at a distance? Kalderon argues that the theory of perception offered by Aristotle in answer to the puzzle is both attractive and defensible
ISBN:9780191787379
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198717904.001.0001

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