Professor David Charles was a Fellow of Philosophy in Oriel College from 1978 before moving to Yale in 2014 and was a Research Professor in Oxford from 2008 to 2014. He has held Visiting Professorships at Rutgers, UCLA, Brown, Tokyo Metropolitan, Taiwan National and Venice Universities. He was a co-founder of the European Society of Ancient Philosophy and is an Honorary Fellow of the National Technical University of Athens.

• Introduction 1: The Emotions 2: Enmattered form: Aristotle's Hylomorphism 3: Desire and Action 4: Taste and Smell: with some remarks on Touch 5: Hearing, Seeing and Hylomorphism 6: Perception, Desire and Action: inextricably embodied subjects 7: Aristotle's Viewpoint 8: Aristotle's Undivided Self

This exegetical work...makes an important contribution to our philosophical understanding of the mind body relationship.