Aristotle on Memory: Second Edition

Richard Sorabji a noted philosopher in his own right here offers a new edition of his 1972 translation of De Memoria here with commentary summaries and three essays comparing Aristotles accounts of memory and recollection. For this edition Sorabji has also provided a substantial new introduction taking into account scholarly debates over the intervening thirty years particularly those over the role of mental images in the imagination. Sorabji has produced a first-class book on an important topic. All Aristotelians and anyone with an interest in any aspect of memory will be in his debt.Jonathan Barnes Isis Anyone concerned with Aristotles psychology theory of mind or rhetoric anyone interested in mnemonic systems and anyone trying to work out for himself a theory of memory should read Aristotles treatise On Memory with the comments by Richard Sorabji.International Studies in Philosophy Sorabjis book is a sample of care intelligence and subtlety that the Anglo-Saxon philosophers do not hesitate to invest in such enterprises. . . . The notes seem to leave no detail no textual difficulty unilluminated.Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale