1st Edition
Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm
By Mark Eli Kalderon
Copyright 2023
348 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
348 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
348 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus , not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus’ wider cosmological project.
Most studies of perception in the Timaeus focus on a few narrow passages on vision and audition. By taking the broader approach of this volume, important lessons about... Read more
1. Proemium; 2. Cosmogony; 3. Psychogony; 4. Cognitive Revolution; 5. Embodiment; 6. The End of Vision and Audition; 7. Common Pathēmata; 8. Peculiar Pathēmata; 9. The Anatomy of Tripartition; 10. The Bonds of Life.
Biography
Mark Eli Kalderon is a Professor of Philosophy at UCL and former editor of the Aristotelian Society. He is the author of Form without Matter, Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception (2015), and Sympathy in Perception (2017). His work focuses on philosophy of perception and its history.
