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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.

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Author:   Elena Băltuță
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9789004408470

ISBN 10:   9004408479
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   21 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

 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

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"""The present volume continues many current lines of research in an innovative manner. [...] The contributions in the volume exemplify well the position of these discussions in the history of philosophy. They call for refined historical analysis but, in the hands of able scholars, provide innovative impulses even to contemporary discussions on the philosophy of perception"". Pekka Kärkkäinen, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021). ""L’ouvrage forme un beau recueil d’articles mettant en lumière des auteurs ou des oeuvres moins connus, ou renouvelant par leur approche des thèses plus répandues dans l’historiographie. Dans l’ensemble et dans le détail, les contributions, de par leur excellente qualité, apportent une contribution importante à l’état de la recherche sur la perception sensible au Moyen Âge."" Véronique Decaix, in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale XXII, 84,3 (2021)"

The present volume continues many current lines of research in an innovative manner. [...] The contributions in the volume exemplify well the position of these discussions in the history of philosophy. They call for refined historical analysis but, in the hands of able scholars, provide innovative impulses even to contemporary discussions on the philosophy of perception . Pekka Karkkainen, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021). L'ouvrage forme un beau recueil d'articles mettant en lumiere des auteurs ou des oeuvres moins connus, ou renouvelant par leur approche des theses plus repandues dans l'historiographie. Dans l'ensemble et dans le detail, les contributions, de par leur excellente qualite, apportent une contribution importante a l'etat de la recherche sur la perception sensible au Moyen Age. Veronique Decaix, in Bulletin de philosophie medievale XXII, 84,3 (2021)

The present volume continues many current lines of research in an innovative manner. [...] The contributions in the volume exemplify well the position of these discussions in the history of philosophy. They call for refined historical analysis but, in the hands of able scholars, provide innovative impulses even to contemporary discussions on the philosophy of perception . Pekka Karkkainen, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021).

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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.

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