[Antiquitas] Aristotle's psychology as natural philosophy, University of Helsinki, 25-26 June, 2015

[mika.perala at helsinki.fi]

ARISTOTLE’S PSYCHOLOGY AS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

A workshop at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture, and Arts Studies
University of Helsinki
University Main Building, Auditorium X, Unioninkatu 34
25-26 June 2015

Topic

Aristotle introduces his study of the soul as part of natural  
philosophy, as distinct from mathematics and ‘first philosophy’. The  
workshop examines the way in which he explains natural,  
psyche-involving phenomena such as nutrition, perception, memory, and  
emotions in terms of form and matter, acting and being acted upon,  
capacity and activity, terms which he sees fit to explain movement and  
change that are distinctive of natural phenomena. The aim of the  
workshop is to clarify and assess Aristotle’s approach to the study of  
the soul as natural philosophy.

Programme

Thursday 25th June

9.30–11.15 Michail Peramatzis (Worcester College, Oxford)
What is a form in Aristotle’s hylomorphism?

11.30–13.15 Jason Carter (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Aristotle’s method in De Anima I

Lunch break

14.15–16.00 Thomas Johansen (Brasenose College, Oxford)
The invention of the nutritive soul: Aristotle vs. Plato on what keeps  
us alive

16.15–18.00 David Charles (Yale University)
TBC

Friday 26th June

9.30–11.15 Lucas Angioni (University of Campinas)
Posterior Analytics II.11: final causation and its syllogistic expression

11.30–13.15 Pierre-Marie Morel (Université Paris 1)
Aristotle’s physiology of emotions and the causality of ‘forms’

Lunch break

14.15–16.00 Mika Perälä (University of Helsinki)
Aristotle’s method in the De Memoria


Organization and funding

The workshop is open to all interested in Aristotle’s philosophy. It  
is organized as part of Mika Perälä’s postdoctoral research project  
entitled ‘Aristotle on memory’, and funded by the Academy of Finland  
in association with the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and  
Arts Studies, University of Helsinki.

For further information please contact Mika Perälä mika.perala at helsinki.fi.