Aristotle on the sense-organs /

This work delves, in minute detail, into Aristotle's approach to the sense organs. Beyond investigating the mechanics of sense perception, Johansen takes up a much debated scholarly question concerning whether sense perception requires material alteration in a perceiving subject. Against some currently influential views, expressed mainly in the form of journal articles, he argues that, according to Aristotle, no such alteration is necessary. Not as broad in scope or as philosophically nuanced as Everson's Aristotle on Perception (CH, Nov'97), this work nonetheless offers a series of sturdy discussions of the individual senses. It will be of use primarily to specialists on Aristotle's psychology and biology, and is thus best suited for academic libraries supporting graduate programs in philosophy or classics. Graduate students, faculty, and researchers. C. J. Shields University of Colorado at Boulder