Graduate Student, Philosophy
Thesis Title: Form and Knowledge in Aristotle
Fran O'Rourke
Tim Crowley
About
I began my studies on Aristotle enquiring the intelligibility of his notion of nature. In my MA thesis I analysed the way a correspondence theory of truth is applicable to Aristotle's natural philosophy. Aristotle's account of the physical world is characterized by the notions of teleology and inner order. As a result, the external reality exhibits immanent structures which coincide with man's mental structures. Such convergence appears to be the foundation for the understandability of the world.
I continued my studies on Aristotle's epistemology as a topic for my MLitt dissertation. One of the main points in Aristotle’s criticism of Plato’s Theory of Forms is that this failed to explain change. In line with this, Aristotle provided a new account of Form as able to explain change, and he applied it to the physical world. However, when it comes to explain perception and most of all intellectual knowledge, the notion of form Aristotle invokes seems to exhibit different characteristics. My attempt is to answer the question: is the form grasped by the knower identical with form as explanatory principle of change? If it's the case, the next step is to fill the gap between Aristotle's natural philosophy and his epistemology.
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