商品簡介
A revised version of King's postdoctoral Habilitationsschrift (philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians U. Munich, Germany), this is a comparative description of the two ancient theories of memory proposed in Aristotle's On memory and recollection and Plotinus's On perception and memory. Six issues serve as the framework for the discussion: how memory is derived from other cognitive faculties, the relationship of the present to the past, the possibility that memory as representation may serve as a link between past and present, the distinctions between past perceptions without searching (memory) and past perceptions requiring a search (recollection), the relation between the self and memory, and whether capacities such as counting that can be realized without reference to perceptions also constitute memory. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard A. H. King, University of Glasgow, UK.
