On Memory

On Memory

On Memory (Latin: "De memoria et reminiscentia") is one of the short treatises that make up Aristotle's Parva Naturalia.

Editions

  • Richard Sorabji, Aristotle On Memory, second edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-76823-6 (review)
  • David Bloch, Aristotle on Memory and Recollection: Text, Translation, Interpretation, and Reception in Western Scholasticism, Leiden: Brill, 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16046-0 (review)

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