SOURCE: "Aristotle on the Science of the Soul," in Mind and Imagination in Aristotle, Yale University press, 1988, pp. 1-22.
In the following essay, Wedin maintains that in De Anima, Aristotle provides a general theory of the soul which he extends and develops in other works. Wedin goes on to explore the relationship between psychology and physics, and analyzes the 'form and function" of the soul according to Aristotle, arguing that Aristotle's conception of the soul is as a functional, cognitive system.