Medieval Perceptual Puzzles
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-40847-0 (ISBN)
In our daily lives, we are surrounded by all sorts of things – such as trees, cars, persons, or madeleines – and perception allows us access to them. But what does ‘to perceive’ actually mean? What is it that we perceive? How do we perceive? Do we perceive the same way animals do? Does reason play a role in perception? Such questions occur naturally today. But was it the same in the past, centuries ago? The collected volume tackles this issue by turning to the Latin philosophy of the 13th and 14th centuries. Did medieval thinkers raise the same, or similar, questions as we do with respect to perception? What answers did they provide? What arguments did they make for raising the questions they did, and for the answers they gave to them? The philosophers taken into consideration are, among others, Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, John Pecham, Richard Rufus, Peter Olivi, Robert Kilwardby, John Buridan, and Jean of Jandun.
Contributors are Elena Băltuță, Daniel De Haan, Martin Klein, Andrew LaZella, Lukáš Lička, Mattia Mantovani, André Martin, Dominik Perler, Paolo Rubini, José Filipe Silva, Juhana Toivanen, and Rega Wood.
Elena Băltuță, Ph.D. (2012), is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. She has published a monograph on Thomas Aquinas’s theory of intentionality (Humanitas, 2013) and several articles on medieval theories of cognition, intentionality, and causation.
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
2 Perceiving As: Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy
Juhana Toivanen
3 The Chameleonic Mind: The Activity versus the Actuality of Perception
José Filipe Silva
4 The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision
Lukáš Lička
5 Visio per sillogismum: Sensation and Cognition in 13th Century Theories of Vision
Mattia Mantovani
6 Spirituality and Perception in Medieval Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
Rega Wood
7 The Escape Artist: Robert Kilwardby on Objects as sine qua non Causes
Elena Băltuță
8 Rational Seeing: Thomas Aquinas on Human Perception
Dominik Perler
9 Aquinas on Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals
Daniel De Haan
10 “Accidental Perception” and “Cogitative Power” in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun
Paolo Rubini
11 Peter John Olivi on Perception, Attention, and the Soul’s Orientation towards the Body
André Martin
12 Caesar in Bronze: Duns Scotus on the Sensation of Singular Accidents
Andrew LaZella
13 John Buridan on the Singularity of Sense Perception
Martin Klein
Index of Names
Index of Concepts
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 13 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 750 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-40847-9 / 9004408479 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-40847-0 / 9789004408470 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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