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Forms and Concepts : Concept Formation in the Platonic Tradition.
Forms and Concepts is the first comprehensive study of the central role of concepts and concept acquisition in the Platonic tradition. It sets up a stimulating dialogue between Plato's innatist approach and Aristotle's much more empirical response. The primary aim is to analyze and assess...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A word of thanks; Introduction; 1. 'How comes the mind to be furnished?'; 2. Survey of recent literature; 3. Structure and contents of this study; I. Concepts
- (ancient) problems and solutions; 1. What is a concept?; 2. The relevance of concepts in ancient epistemological debates; 3. Different models of concept acquisition in antiquity; 4. Forms and concepts & problematic concepts; II. Plato on learning as recollection; 1. Forms and concepts; 1.1. The role of concepts in Plato; 1.2. Forms, concepts, language; 2. The Parmenides and the archaeology of conceptualism.
- 2.1. Concepts as 'one over many'2.2. Refuting conceptualism?; 2.3. Conclusion; 3. The Meno on the different stages of recollection; 3.1. The transition from opinion (doxa) to knowledge; 3.2. Conclusion; 4. The Phaedo on the necessity of innate knowledge; 4.1. The deficiency argument (Phaedo 72e-77a); 4.2. The continuity between Meno and Phaedo; 5. The Phaedrus on acquiring universal concepts; 5.1. Recollection and concept attainment (Phaedrus 249b-c); 5.2. Forms, concepts, language again; 5.3. Conclusion; 6. Concept formation and concepts in the Timaeus, Theaetetus, and Sophist.
- 6.1. Recollection in Plato's later works6.2. Innateness and the structure of the human soul; 7. The limits of recollection; 7.1. Some problematic concepts; 7.2. Recollection and error; 8. Forms, concepts, and recollection; III. Aristotle's reaction to Plato; 1. Aristotle and his teacher Plato; 1.1. A strange couple; 1.2. Aristotle's arguments against innate knowledge; 2. The origin and nature of mathematical concepts; 2.1. Concepts and the division of sciences; 2.2. A troublesome emendation; 2.3. Abstraction and the qua-operator; 2.4. Aristotelian and Platonic separation.
- 2.5. Mathematical objects and concepts2.6. Linking abstractionM and induction?; 3. Universal concepts
- induction (epagoge) and its different domains; 3.1. A general definition of induction; 3.2. Induction and its different domains; 3.3. The language of induction; 3.4. Different kinds of induction in Aristotle; 3.4.1. Induction in dialectical and rhetorical practice; 3.4.2. Digression: likeness and the charge of circularity; 3.4.3. Induction in ethics and natural science; 3.4.4. The troublesome case of 'complete' or 'perfect induction'; 3.5. Induction and the starting points of syllogism.
- 4. Induction of first principles (Posterior Analytics II 19)4.1. Introduction; 4.2. What is the object of Analytica Posteriora II 19?; 4.3. Articulation and summary of the argument; 4.4. The relation of sense perception and intellect; IV. Three case studies: Alcinous, Alexander & Porphyry, and Plotinus; 1. Alcinous between empiricism and recollection; 1.1. The doctrine of the doxastic logos; 1.2. Alcinous' psychology; 1.3. Empiricism vs. innate knowledge; 2. Alexander of Aphrodisias & Porphyry on abstraction and universals; 2.1. Alexander
- elaborating Aristotle's notion of abstraction.