Aristotle’s De Anima And De Generatione Et Corruptione In The Medieval Hebrew Tradition: New Details Regarding Textual History Coming From A Neglected Manuscript

2011 ◽  
pp. 91-101
Keyword(s):  
De Anima ◽  
Textual History ◽  
Hebrew Tradition ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

The Medieval Hebrew Tradition in Astronomy

1965 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard R. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Tradition ◽  
Medieval Hebrew

Aristotle's Formal Identity of Intellect and Object: A Solution to the Problem of Modal Epistemology

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Robert C. Koons
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Modal Epistemology ◽  
De Anima ◽  
Object A ◽  
Formal Identity ◽  
Identity Thesis ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mental Objects ◽  
Aristotelian Metaphysics

In De Anima Book III, Aristotle subscribed to a theory of formal identity between the human mind and the extra-mental objects of our understanding. This has been one of the most controversial features of Aristotelian metaphysics of the mind. I offer here a defense of the Formal Identity Thesis, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths.

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