Species intelligibilis : : from perception to knowledge / / Volume 1: : Classical Roots and Medieval Discussions. / by Leen Spruit.

This study examines the history of a fundamental problem in Aristotelian cognitive psychology, id est the nature and function of the mechanisms that provide the human mind with data concerning physical reality. Chapter I traces the Classical and Arabic prehistory of the Medieval doctrine of intellig...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 48-49
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1994-1995.
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (463 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Origins Of The Species Intelligibilis In Ancient And Medieval Thought
  • Chapter Two: From The Spread Of Arabic And Aristotelian Psychology To Thomas Aquinas
  • Chapter Three: Species Intelligibius: Genesis Of A Philosophical Controversy
  • Chapter Four: Fourteenth-Century Developments
  • Chapter Five: Late Medieval Discussions
  • Bibliography
  • Index Personarum.