Aristotle's Empiricism

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Aristotle's Empiricism is written by Marc Gasser-Wingate and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197567479 (ISBN 10) and 9780197567470 (ISBN 13).

Though Aristotle is often thought to be an empiricist-someone who thinks all knowledge is somehow derived from perception-the philosopher is often thought to have little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate here 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 them in certain ways, and develop distinctively human forms of understanding.