A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Lucretius and the Body-Environment Approach
Authors: Helenius Visa
Editors: Antón Alvar Nuño, Jaime Alvar Ezquerra, Greg Woolf
Edition: 1
Publishing place: Leiden, Boston
Publication year: 2021
Book title : SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism
Series title: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
Number in series: 195
First page : 52
Last page: 70
Number of pages: 18
ISBN: 978-90-04-45973-1
eISBN: 978-90-04-45974-8
ISSN: 0927-7633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004459748_004
Web address : https://brill.com/view/title/59919
This chapter argues that Lucretius’ philosophy is related to certain
theories recently developed in the philosophy of mind. I claim that the
way of thinking that is based on these theories, referred to here as the
Body-Environment Approach, finds a prototype in Lucretius’ philosophy
and, reciprocally, that the study of Lucretius can benefit from the
application of this approach. Because these claims are related to
Lucretius’ views on senses, perception, mind, and gods, and to the
background of De rerum natura, these topics will be examined in detail here.
