Christina PapachristouAristotle University of Thessaloniki | AUTH · Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle Studies
Christina Papachristou
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Christina Papachristou conducts research in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Biology. Her most recent publication is 'Aristotle's Explanations of Bird Migration.'
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The migrations of birds have attracted the attention and excited the imagination of man since antiquity. The earliest contributions to the study of this phenomenon date back 3,000 years ago, to the times of Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus, Anacreon and Aristophanes. However, the first systematic study of birds began in the 4th-century BCE with Aristotle....
Phantasia/imagination (φαντασία) in Aristotle is one of the parts (µόρια) or faculties/powers (δυνάµεις) of the soul that cannot exist apart from sensation (ασθησις) and thought (διάνοια). The function of phantasia and its connection with phantasmata (φαντάσµατα), the products of this faculty, plays a significant role in the psychological treatises...
