Overview
- Includes pairs of papers: one written by a specialist and another written in response
- Deepens our understanding of pre-modern philosophy of mind and epistemology
- Approaches problems of perception in the context of Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophy
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 26)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- History of philosophy of mind
- theories of perception
- philosophical approaches to sense perception
- Perceptual judgement
- Conscious attention
- physical/mental divide
- Greek, Arabic, and Latin Aristotelianism
- Aristotelian theory of perception
- Aristotle on Perception as Representation
- Perception as Presentation
- Aristotle and Theaetetus
- Alexander of Aphrodisias on Simultaneous Perception
- Common Sense in Themistius
- Common Sense, Estimation, and the Soul’s Unity in Avicenna
- Sense Perception in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī
- John of Jandun on Sense Perception and Instantaneous Change
- Alexander on Relational Nature of Perception
- Attention, Recognition, and Error in Oresme’s Psychology
- Oresme on Activity, Judgment, Recognition
About this book
The volume gives an equal footing to Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions. It makes a substantial contribution not just to the study of the Aristotelian analysis of sense perception, but to its reception in the commentary tradition and beyond. Thus, the papers address developments in Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius, Avicenna, John of Jandun, Nicole Oresme, and Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, among others. The result of this is a coherent collection that attacks a well-defined topic from a wide range of perspectives and across philosophical traditions.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
David Bennett was a Research Associate in Representation and Reality research programme at the University of Gothenburg. He specialises in the philosophical and theological controversies of the 9th-10th century Islamicate world, particularly the early development of Muʿtazilite thought. He has written on pre-Avicennan accounts of sense perception, veridical dreams, and conceptualization, and he is currently working on a monograph about atoms.
Juhana Toivanen is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He has published widely on medieval philosophy of mind, including a monograph Perception and the Internal Senses (Brill 2013). Currently he is working, among other things, on medieval conceptions of human sociability.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism
Editors: David Bennett, Juhana Toivanen
Series Title: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56946-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56945-7Published: 16 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56948-8Published: 17 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56946-4Published: 15 December 2020
Series ISSN: 1573-5834
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, History of Psychology