Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume One: Sense Perception

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50606-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 161, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This first volume focuses on sense perception and discusses philosophical questions concerning the external senses, their classification, and their functioning, from Aristotle to Brentano.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Toivanen, Juhana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

General Introduction

Sten Ebbesen

Introduction: Sense Perception in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition

Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink

1 Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Individuation and Hierarchy of the Senses

Katerina Ierodiakonou

2 Aristotle on Incidental Perception

Mika Perälä

3 Sense Perception in the Arabic Tradition: The Controversy Concerning Causality

David Bennett

4 Avicenna on Perception, Cognition, and Mental Disorders: The Case of Hallucination

Ahmed Alwishah

5 Perceiving Many Things Simultaneously: Medieval Reception of an Aristotelian Problem

Juhana Toivanen

6 Affected by the Matter: The Question of Plant Perception in the Medieval Latin Tradition on De somno et vigilia

Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist

7 Autoscopy in Meteorologica 3.4: Following Some Strands in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentary Traditions

Filip Radovic and David Bennett

8 Brentano’s Aristotelian Account of the Classification of the Senses

Hamid Taieb

Bibliography

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Juhana Toivanen (DSocSc 2009) is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He has published widely on medieval philosophical pscyhology and political philosophy, including monographs Perception and the Internal Senses (2013) and The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy (2021).