Philosophy East and West, July 1st, 1994
Davidson begins his book with the following comment: "The most intensely studied sentences in the history of philosophy are probably those in Aristotle's De Anima that undertake to explain how the human intellect passes from [potentiality to actuality]." What indeed was Aristotle undertaking to explain in De Anima 3.4-5.429a-430a? Davidson is certainly right in stating that "what Aristotle meant by potential intellect and active intellect . . . remains moot to this day" (p. 1). He might have added without undue risk that it will forever remain moot. After all, the subject is treated laconicall...
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