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The Structure of Stoic Metaphysics
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This article is published in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.The article was published on 2014-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Metaphysics.read more
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What do our impressions say? The Stoic theory of perceptual content and belief formation
Abstract: Abstract Here I propose an interpretation of the ancient Stoic psychological theory on which (i) the concepts that an adult human possesses affect the content of the perceptual impressions (φαντασίαι αἰσθητικαί) she forms, and (ii) the content of such impressions is exhausted by an ‘assertible’ (ἀξίωμα) of suitable complexity. What leads the Stoics to accept (i) and (ii), I argue, is their theory of assent and belief formation, which requires that the perceptual impression communicate information suitable to serve as the content of belief. In arguing for (i), I reject a rival interpretation on which conceptualization occurs subsequently to the formation of a perceptual impression. In arguing for (ii), I deny that perceptual impressions have two kinds of content: one formulated in an assertible, the other sensory, featuring independently of this assertible. I explore the implications of (i) and (ii) for the Stoic theory of emotions, expertise, and rationality, and argue that they shed new light on the workings of impression, assent, and belief.
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Creating a Mind Fit for Truth: The Role of Expertise in the Stoic Account of the Kataleptic Impression
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the subject can restrict her assent to kataleptic impressions, even if they are phenomenologically indistinguishable from those which are not kathaleptic.
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Hierocles and the Stoic Theory of Blending
TL;DR: In this article, a new interpretation of the Stoic theory of blending, based on passages from Hierocles, is developed, which allows us to see in detail how the theory is supposed to work and how it fits into Stoic physics.
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Self-Causation and Unity in Stoicism
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how pneuma is supposed to be able to unify itself and other bodies in virtue of its characteristic tensile motion (τονικὴ κίνησις).
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On the Separability and Inseparability of the Stoic Principles
TL;DR: The authors distinguish between the functions of the Stoic principles and the bodies that realize those functions, and present a strategy for further work on the principles in light of this interpretation, in which the body that realizes those functions is physically separable from the principles.