Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Knuuttila, Simo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kärkkäinen, Pekka (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind ; 6
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Medieval philosophy.; Philosophy of mind.; Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; History of Philosophy.; Medieval Philosophy.; Classical Philosophy.; History of Psychology.

Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. It is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many important topics, such as the mind-body relationship, consciousness, knowledge, and scepticism. Perception is also a phenomenon which itself raises philosophical questions, such...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Aristotle’s Theory of Perception and Medieval Aristotelianism
• Plotinus on Sense Perception
• The Stoics on Sense Perception
• Degrees of Abstraction in Avicenna
• The Ontological Entailments of Averroes’ Understanding of Perception
• Robert Kilwardby on Sense Perception
• Perceiving One’s Own Body
• Pietro d’Abano and the Anatomy of Perception
• Id Quo Cognoscimus
• Seeing and Judging: Ockham and Wodeham on Sensory Cognition
• Horse Sense and Human Sense: The Heterogeneity of Sense Perception in Buridan’s Philosophical Psychology
• Objects of Sense Perception in Late Medieval Erfurtian Nominalism
• Renaissance Views of Active Perception
• Time and Perception in Late Renaissance Aristotelianism
• Malebranche’s Ontological Problem of the Perception of Bodies
• Locke on the Intentionality of Sensory Ideas.