Rationality in Perception in Medieval Philosophy / / edited by José Filipe Silva.

• Superior document: Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Silva, José Filipe,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

How we come to know the external world has intrigued thinkers throughout the history of philosophy. Medieval philosophers understood that a theory of perception requires an account of the categorization of sensory information: to perceive things as being dangerous or beneficial and even as being individuals that belong to certain kinds (e.g., ‘this is a dog’). A key question is whether this requires the intervention of rational cognitive capacities, cooperating with sensory ones in normal instances of perception. The contributions to this volume investigate how thinkers from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries answer this and other related questions about human perception. Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Joël Biard, Véronique Decaix, Christian Kny, Lydia Schumacher, José Filipe Silva, and Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Editor: José Filipe Silva -- Copyright page / Editor: José Filipe Silva -- Dedication Page / Editor: José Filipe Silva -- Preface / Editor: José Filipe Silva -- Contributors / Editor: José Filipe Silva -- Chapter 1 Introduction / José Filipe Silva -- Chapter 2 Early Franciscans on Active Perception and Cognition / Lydia Schumacher -- Chapter 3 Back to the Things / Véronique Decaix -- Chapter 4 Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on What Makes Perception Human / Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp -- Chapter 5 Aquinas on Rationality and Perception / Fabrizio Amerini -- Chapter 6 Thomas Aquinas on Perception Permeated by Rationality / José Filipe Silva -- Chapter 7 Temporality and Small Perceptions in Mid-Fourteenth Century / Joël Biard -- Chapter 8 Rational Perception in Application / Christian Kny -- Index of Philosophical Terms / Editor: José Filipe Silva.