Philosophy/Science

Abstract–Aristotle’s Treatment of Force and Compulsion as Exculpatory Conditions for Moral Responsibility

This paper explores Aristotle’s conception of responsibility in the Eudemian Ethics and the Nicomachean Ethics by focusing on one representative example:  his treatment of force and compulsion as exculpatory conditions. This case is revealing both for Aristotle’s specific views on the appropriate reactions to actions undertaken under conditions of force… Read more

Aristotle on Perceiving Objects

How can one explain the structure of experience?  What is it that we perceive?  How is it that we perceive objects and not disjoint arrays of properties?  By which sense or senses do we perceive objects?  Does this type of perception require a further sense over and above the… Read more