Article: ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL.(Critical Essay)

DEBATE CONTINUES OVER WHETHER AN "Aristotelian philosophy of mind" is still credible.(1) Recent commentators wonder whether Aristotle's view lies somewhere in the constellation of modern theories of mind, or whether he might point to an uncharted theory. Because he viewed his own account as an alternative to both Platonic dualism and Presocratic materialism, moderns seeking a middle way between Cartesian dualism and reductionist physicalism have looked to Aristotle for inspiration. As Jonathan Barnes observes, "Philosophy of mind has for centuries been whirled between a Cartesian Charybdis and a scientific Scylla: Aristotle has the look of an Odysseus."(2)

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