TY  - BOOK
AU  - Băltuță,Elena
TI  - Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries
T2  - Investigating Medieval Philosophy Series
SN  - 9789004413030
AV  - B72 .M435 2020 
U1  - 190 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Philosophy-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Medieval Perceptual Puzzles -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 1 General Remarks -- 2 Structure of the Volume -- Acknowledgements -- 2 Perceiving As: Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Varieties of Perceiving As -- 3 Perceiving Sensible Qualities and Individual Substances -- 3.1 Synthetic Wholes -- 3.2 Incidental Perception -- 3.3 Substances and Individuals -- 4 Two Heuristic Models -- 5 Conclusion -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 3 The Chameleonic Mind: The Activity versus the Actuality of Perception -- 1 -- 2 -- Acknowledgements -- 4 The Visual Process: Immediate or Successive? Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Extramission, Its Varieties, and Merits -- 3 Refutation Albert the Great -- 4 Syncretism Roger Bacon -- 5 Reinterpretation Peter Olivi -- 6 Conclusion -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 5 Visio per sillogismum: Sensation and Cognition in 13th Century Theories of Vision -- 1 The Aristotelians' Dilemma "Materialists" and "Dematerializers -- 2 Species colorum corporaliter immutant pupillam -- 3 Non percipimus nos arguere, cum tamen arguamus -- 4 Conclusions -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 6 Spirituality and Perception in Medieval Aristotelian Natural Philosophy -- 1 Major Differences between Medieval and Modern Aims and Concepts -- 2 Reasons for Positing Spirituality in Explaining Perception -- 2.1 Action over Great Distances -- 2.2 Bridging the Gap between Material and Immaterial Beings -- 2.3 Distinguishing Apprehensible Immaterial Forms from Material Forms -- 2.4 Solving the Problem of Impedance -- 2.5 Offering a Unifying Characteristic for the Percepts of the Common Sense; 2.6 Making the Process of Perception Fit the Faculties of Perception -- 3 What is Left if There is No Material Process Underlying Perception? -- 4 Conclusions -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 7 The Escape Artist: Robert Kilwardby on Objects as sine qua non Causes -- 1 The Principle of Ontological Hierarchy -- 1.1 Kilwardby and Aquinas Comparative Analysis of the Principle of Ontological Hierarchy -- 1.2 Kilwardby's Architecture of the World -- 1.3 Summary of Relevant Consequences -- 2 Causation in Perception -- 3 Literature Survey -- 4 The sine qua non Cause of Perception -- 4.1 Two Descriptive Levels -- 4.2 The Consistency Claim -- 5 Conclusion -- Secondary Literature -- 8 Rational Seeing: Thomas Aquinas on Human Perception -- 1 Introduction Human and Non-human Seeing -- 2 The Metaphysical Inclusion Model -- 3 The Functioning of the Cogitative Power -- 4 Conclusion Additive and Transformative Theories of Rationality -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 9 Aquinas on Perceiving, Thinking, Understanding, and Cognizing Individuals -- 1 Some Terminological Caveats -- 2 Aquinas's Approach to Aristotelian Psychology -- 3 Aquinas on per se and per accidens Sensibles in De anima ii.6 -- 4 Aquinas's Approach to Singular Cognition -- 5 Re-reading Summa Theologiae i.86.1 -- 6 Conclusion Aquinas on the Diverse Forms of Singular Cognition in Humans -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 10 "Accidental Perception" and "Cogitative Power" in Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aquinas on Accidental Perception Cogitative Power and Intellect -- 3 John of Jandun on Accidental Perception The Autonomy of the Cogitative Power -- 4 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 11 Peter John Olivi on Perception, Attention, and the Soul's Orientation towards the Body -- 1 Olivi and His Aristotelian and Augustinian Context; 1.1 Passive vs. Active Cognition -- 1.2 Direct vs. Indirect Cognition -- 1.3 Augustine on Extramission Theories of Cognition -- 2 More on "Aspectus" and Olivi's Positive Account of Cognition -- 2.1 Various Uses of "Aspectus" by Olivi -- 2.2 Terminative Causation -- 2.3 The Mode of Connection -- Abbreviations for the Works of Peter John Olivi and Augustine -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 12 Caesar in Bronze: Duns Scotus on the Sensation of Singular Accidents -- 1 The Traditional Aristotelian View -- 2 Wayfarer Impediments -- 3 Possible Explanations -- 4 Why Believe in Individual Accidents? -- 5 The Principle of Agendi-Assimilandi -- 6 Ultimate Individual Difference -- 7 Intuitive Cognition and Designate Singulars -- 8 Conclusion -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- 13 John Buridan on the Singularity of Sense Perception -- Introduction -- 1 I Spy with My Little Eye -- 2 Universal Sense Perception Too Good to Be True -- 3 What's the Matter with Singular Cognitions? -- 2 Conclusion -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Index of Names -- Index of Concepts
N2  - Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries is an anthology of texts offering an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval theories of sense-perception. The volume offers historical and systematic approaches to themes and questions that have shaped the medieval accounts of sense-perception
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