This volume is the first in English to provide a full, systematic
investigation into Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories
of the soul from the perspective of his theory of scientific
explanation. Some interpreters of the De Anima have seen
Aristotle's criticisms of Presocratic, Platonic, and other views
about the soul as unfair or dialectical, but Jason W. Carter argues
that Aristotle's criticisms are in fact a justified attempt to test
the adequacy of earlier theories in terms of the theory of
scientific knowledge he advances in the Posterior Analytics. Carter
proposes a new interpretation of Aristotle's confrontations with
earlier psychology, showing how his reception of other Greek
philosophers shaped his own hylomorphic psychology and led him to
adopt a novel dualist theory of the soul-body relation. His book
will be important for students and scholars of Aristotle, ancient
Greek psychology, and the history of the mind-body problem.
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