Anna Marmodoro's Books

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

By: Anna Marmodoro

Marmodoro's monograph engages with Aristotle's views on a philosophically challenging question regarding perception, which has been central in the history of philosophy and is very much the focus of current debates in a number of philosophical and psychological disciplines: How do we become perceptually aware of objects in the world? Despite the significance of the question, the ways in which ancient philosophers have addressed it have only just begun to be be explored. There is a great wealth of insight on this question to be found in Aristotle, regarding our ability to perceive items in our environment, which he develops through his very demanding metaphysics, and Marmodo explores these insights in depth here. Aristotle's attempts at accounting for our awareness of complex perceptual content were highly original, drawing on and building on the metaphysics he has developed elsewhere in his works, but have not been adequately explored to date"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199326002

ISBN 13

9780199326006

Everything in Everything

Anaxagoras's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Everything in Everything

Anaxagoras's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Vth century BCE) is best known in the history of philosophy for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything. He puts forward this theory of extreme mixture as a solution to the problem of change he and his contemporaries inherited from Parmenides - that what is cannot come from what is not (and vice versa). Yet, for ancient and modern scholars alike, the metaphysical significance of Anaxagoras's position has proven challenging to understanding. In Everything in Everything, Anna Marmodoro offers a fresh interpretation of Anaxagoras's theory of mixture, arguing for its soundness and also relevance to contemporary debates in metaphysics. For Anaxagoras the fundamental elements of reality are the opposites (hot, cold, wet, dry, etc.), which Marmodoro argues are instances of physical causal powers. The unchanging opposites compose mereologically, forming (phenomenologically) emergent wholes. Everything in the universe (except nous) derives from the opposites. The opposite exist as endlessly partitioned; they can be scattered everywhere and be in everything. Mardomoro further shows that their extreme mixture is made possible by the omni-presence and hence com-presence in the universe, which is in turn facilitated by the limitless divisibility of the opposites. Anaxagoras tackles the logical consequences of the limitless divisibility of the elements. He is the first ante litteram 'gunk lover' in the history of metaphysics. He also has a unique conception of (non-material) gunk and a unique power ontology, which Marmodoro refers to as 'power gunk'. Marmodoro investigates the nature of power gunk and the explanatory utility of the concept for Anaxagoras, for his theory of extreme mixture. Whilst most defenders of an atomless universe nowadays argue for material gunk as a conceptual possibility (only), Anaxagoras argues for power gunk as the ontology of nature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190611979

ISBN 13

9780190611972

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers from antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical account of objects and their properties. The book's subject matter is of wide interest to philosophers and historians of philosophy alike. The methodology applied in the study of the subject matter in this book also facilitates reaching out to both domains of readership. The innovative (and possiblycontroversial) claims made in the book will spark debate and bring the book at the forefront of current discussions in philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197577156

ISBN 13

9780197577158

Metaphysics

An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History

By: Anna Marmodoro,Erasmus Mayr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Metaphysics

An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History

By: Anna Marmodoro,Erasmus Mayr

This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free will. Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus Mayr take a neo-Aristotelian approach both in the selection and presentation of the topics. But Marmodoro and Mayr's discussion is not narrowly partisan-it consistently presents opposing sides of the debate and addresses issues from different philosophical traditions, and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions about them. Metaphysics combines a state-of-the-art presentation of the issues that takes into account the most recent developments in the field, with extensive references to the history of philosophy. The book thus makes topics in contemporary analytical metaphysics easily accessible to readers who have no specific background in contemporary philosophy, but rather in the history of philosophy. At the same time, it will engage readers who do not have any historical background with some key developments within the history of the subject.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190941618

ISBN 13

9780190941611

Everything in Everything

Anaxagoras's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Everything in Everything

Anaxagoras's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190611979

ISBN 13

9780190611972

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties. The book introduces a fresh perspective on these two thinkers' ideas, displaying the debt of Plato's theory on Anaxagoras's, and principally arguing that their core metaphysical concept is overlap; overlap between properties and things in the world. Initially Plato endorses Anaxagoras's model of constitutional overlap, and subsequently develops qualitative overlap. Overlap is the crux to our understanding of objects participating in Forms in Plato's metaphysics; of Plato's account of relata without relations; of the role of Forms as causes; of the metaphysics of necessity; and of the role of the Great Kinds and of the paradeigma in the development of Plato's thought. Anna Marmodoro argues that Plato is ground-breaking in the history of metaphysics, in different ways from those acknowledged so far, and with respect to more metaphysical questions than had been hitherto appreciated; e.g. Plato's treatment of structure as property; of complexity; and his introduction of the first ever account of metaphysical emergence. In addition to these results, Marmodoro makes Anaxagoras's and Plato's systems philosophically accessible to us, today's philosophers, by applying conceptual tools from analytic metaphysics to the study of ancient metaphysics. In this way, the book brings Anaxagoras's and Plato's ideas to bear on todays' philosophical discussions and opens up new venues of research for current philosophical discussions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0197577172

ISBN 13

9780197577172

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) were pursuing, while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical perspectives existing in antiquity concerning the explanation of property qualification, qualitative similarity, compositeness, and oneness. It further argues that it was Plato who first conceptualised recurring universals but did not reify them and did not admit them in his ontology; it was Aristotle who did, and developed his metaphysics around them. It concludes by showing that Aristotle, building on Plato's work, identified the metaphysical phenomenon of the instantiation of properties and developed an account for it. Finally, the Element outlines Aristotle's 'sophisticated' account of the oneness of a substance and argues that it was not hylomorphic.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

143

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009115839

ISBN 13

9781009115834

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

By: Anna Marmodoro

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

305

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199326002

ISBN 13

9780199326006

Metaphysics

An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History

By: Anna Marmodoro,Erasmus Mayr

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Metaphysics

An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History

By: Anna Marmodoro,Erasmus Mayr

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

241

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0190941634

ISBN 13

9780190941635

Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities

By: Gabriele De Anna

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities

By: Gabriele De Anna

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with. In Part I, the author justifies the need for the notion of substance in metaphysics in general and in the metaphysics of politics in particular. He spells out a moderately realist theory of substances and of their principles of unity, which supports substantial gradualism. Part II concerns action theory and the nature of practical reason. The author claims that the acknowledgement of reasons by agents is constitutive of action and that normativity depends on the role of the good in the formation of reasons. Finally, in Part III the author addresses the notion of political community. He claims that the principle of unity of a political community is its authority to give members of the community moral reasons for action. This suggests a middle way between liberal individualism and organicism, and the author demonstrates the significance of this view by discussing current political issues such as the role of religion in the public sphere and the political significance of cultural identity. Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in social metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of action, and philosophy of the social sciences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

249

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000060578

ISBN 13

9781000060577

The Renaissance of Plotinus

The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads

By: Anna Corrias

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Renaissance of Plotinus

The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads

By: Anna Corrias

Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy through the works of Proclus, St. Augustine, and Macrobius, among others, it was not until 1492 with the publication of the first Latin translation of the Enneads by the humanist philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) that Plotinus was reborn to the Western world. Ficino’s translation was accompanied by a long commentary in which he examined the close relationship between metaphysics and anthropology that informed Plotinus’s philosophy. Focusing on Ficino’s interpretation of Plotinus’s view of the soul and of human nature, this book excavates a fundamental chapter in the history of Platonic scholarship, one which was to inform later readings of the Enneads up until the nineteenth century. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of Western philosophy, intellectual history, and book history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

152

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000080102

ISBN 13

9781000080100

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

By: Anna Marmodoro

This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical perspectives existing in antiquity concerning the explanation of property qualification, qualitative similarity, compositeness, and oneness. It further argues that although Plato was the first to conceptualise recurring universals, he did not reify them and did not admit them in his ontology; it was Aristotle who did, and developed his metaphysics around them. Aristotle, building on Plato's work, identified the metaphysical phenomenon of the instantiation of properties and developed an account for it. Finally, this Element outlines Aristotle's 'sophisticated' account of the oneness of a substance and argues that it was not hylomorphic.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009115030

ISBN 13

9781009115032

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

By: Anna Marmodoro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

By: Anna Marmodoro

This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316251780

ISBN 13

9781316251782

Book's by Anna Marmodoro

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

Everything in Everything

Everything in Everything

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Everything in Everything

Everything in Everything

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

Metaphysics

Metaphysics

Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities

Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities

The Renaissance of Plotinus

The Renaissance of Plotinus

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

Properties in Ancient Metaphysics

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email