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Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Simo Knuuttila

    1. Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  2. Pekka Kärkkäinen

    1. Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  • The first extensive account of philosophical psychology of perception from ancient to early modern times
  • Includes contributions from several leading scholars in the field of history of philosophy
  • Suitable as a textbook on the history of philosophical psychology

Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 6)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Aristotle’s Theory of Perception and Medieval Aristotelianism

    • Simo Knuuttila
    Pages 1-22

  3. Plotinus on Sense Perception

    • Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
    Pages 23-33

  4. The Stoics on Sense Perception

    • Håvard Løkke
    Pages 35-46

  5. Degrees of Abstraction in Avicenna

    • Cristina D’Ancona
    Pages 47-71

  6. The Ontological Entailments of Averroes’ Understanding of Perception

    • Alfred L. Ivry
    Pages 73-86

  7. Robert Kilwardby on Sense Perception

    • José Filipe Silva
    Pages 87-100

  8. Perceiving One’s Own Body

    • Mikko Yrjönsuuri
    Pages 101-116

  9. Pietro d’Abano and the Anatomy of Perception

    • Henrik Lagerlund
    Pages 117-130

  10. Id Quo Cognoscimus

    • Robert Pasnau
    Pages 131-149

  11. Seeing and Judging: Ockham and Wodeham on Sensory Cognition

    • Dominik Perler
    Pages 151-169

  12. Horse Sense and Human Sense: The Heterogeneity of Sense Perception in Buridan’s Philosophical Psychology

    • Jack Zupko
    Pages 171-186

  13. Objects of Sense Perception in Late Medieval Erfurtian Nominalism

    • Pekka Kärkkäinen
    Pages 187-202

  14. Renaissance Views of Active Perception

    • Leen Spruit
    Pages 203-224

  15. Time and Perception in Late Renaissance Aristotelianism

    • Michael Edwards
    Pages 225-244

  16. Malebranche’s Ontological Problem of the Perception of Bodies

    • Martine Pècharman
    Pages 245-269

  17. Locke on the Intentionality of Sensory Ideas

    • Ralph Schumacher
    Pages 271-283

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 285-292
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About this book

Sense perception is one of the classical themes in philosophy. Although perhaps not among the most exciting topics, it is traditionally considered a necessary preamble to many of these, such as the mind-body relationship, consciousness, knowledge, and scepticism. This introductory role is not the only reason for the philosophical interest in perception. It is also a phenomenon which raises important questions about what is perceived, how a perceptual experience is caused, what the content of perception is, whether this content is conceptual, how perception is related to epistemic attitudes, and so on. While philosophical psychology is the main area in which perception is dealt with in contemporary philosophy, itis also discussed in the theory of knowledge, cognitive science, philosophical aesthetics and metaphysics. In recent years, the rich tradition of various philosophical theories of perception has been increasingly studied by scholars of the history of philosophy of mind. It may be added that there is of course a large number of scienti c studies of perception in psychology, physiology and contemporary neuroscience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Simo Knuuttila, Pekka Kärkkäinen

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