Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism (eBook)

DAVID BENNETT, Juhana Toivanen (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
258 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-030-56946-4 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on philosophical problems concerning sense perception in the history of philosophy. It consists of thirteen essays that analyse the philosophical tradition originating in Aristotle’s writings. Each essay tackles a particular problem that tests the limits of Aristotle’s theory of perception and develops it in new directions. The problems discussed range from simultaneous perception to causality in perception, from the representational nature of sense-objects to the role of conscious attention, and from the physical/mental divide to perception as quasi-rational judgement. 

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 258 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Alexander of Aphrodisias on Simultaneous Perception • Alexander on Relational Nature of Perception • Aristotelian theory of perception • Aristotle and Theaetetus • Aristotle on Perception as Representation • Attention, Recognition, and Error in Oresme’s Psychology • Common Sense, Estimation, and the Soul’s Unity in Avicenna • Common Sense in Themistius • Conscious attention • Greek, Arabic, and Latin Aristotelianism • History of philosophy of mind • John of Jandun on Sense Perception and Instantaneous Change • Oresme on Activity, Judgment, Recognition • Perception as Presentation • Perceptual judgement • philosophical approaches to sense perception • physical/mental divide • Sense Perception in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī • theories of perception
• ISBN-10: 3-030-56946-2 / 3030569462
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-56946-4 / 9783030569464