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Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from
perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant
to entail. It's not clear, for instance, what perception is
supposed to contribute to the more advanced forms of knowledge that
derive from it. Nor is it clear how we should understand the nature
of its contribution-what it might mean to say that these more
advanced forms of knowledge are "derived from" or "based on" what
we perceive. Aristotle is often thought to have disappointingly
little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate makes the case that
this thought is mistaken: a coherent and philosophically attractive
view of perceptual knowledge can be found in the various texts in
which Aristotle discusses perception's role in animal life, the
cognitive resources on which it does and does not depend, and the
relation it bears to practical and theoretical modes of
understanding. Aristotle's Empiricism offers a sustained
examination of these discussions and their epistemological,
psychological, and ethical implications. It defends an
interpretation of Aristotle as a moderate sort of empiricist, who
thinks we can develop sophisticated forms of knowledge by broadly
perceptual means-and that we therefore share an important part of
our cognitive lives with nonrational animals-but also holds that
our intellectual powers allow us to surpass these animals in
certain ways and thereby develop distinctively human forms of
understanding.
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