Movements, memory, and mixture: Aristotle, confusion, and the historicity of memory

John Sutton*

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    Abstract

    Aristotle frequently discusses specific material constraints on memory and recollection. This essay reinterprets his fluid physiological psychology of memory, which depends on the stability of bodily movements or traces, in light of his general theory of mixture. It proposes new ways to link memory and metaphysics in the Aristotelian tradition; counters a popular historical narrative which sets Aristotle at the origin of a static Western ‘archival model’ of memory; and suggests the relevance for contemporary philosophy and science of Aristotle’s view of the potential existence of movements in memory.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe internal senses in the Aristotelian tradition
    EditorsSeyed N. Mousavian, Jakob Leth Fink
    Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
    PublisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
    Chapter8
    Pages137-154
    Number of pages18
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030334086
    ISBN (Print)9783030334079
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Publication series

    NameStudies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
    Volume22
    ISSN (Print)1573-5834
    ISSN (Electronic)2542-9922

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