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José Filipe Silva

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The Active Nature of the Soul in Sense Perception: Robert Kilwardby and Peter Olivi

2010

AbstractThis article discusses the theories of perception of Robert Kilwardby and Peter of John Olivi. Our aim is to show how in challenging certain assumptions of medieval Aristotelian theories of perception they drew on Augustine and argued for the active nature of the soul in sense perception. For both Kilwardby and Olivi, the soul is not passive with respect to perceived objects; rather, it causes its own cognitive acts with respect to external objects and thus allows the subject to perceive them. We also show that Kilwardby and Olivi differ substantially regarding where the activity of the soul is directed to and the role of the sensible species in the process, and we demonstrate that …

Medieval philosophyHistoryPhilosophymedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesSubject (philosophy)050301 education06 humanities and the arts0603 philosophy ethics and religion16. Peace & justiceIntellectual historyEpistemologyMedieval historyPhilosophyIntentionalityPerception060302 philosophySoulHistory of philosophy0503 educationmedia_commonVivarium 48: 245–278
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Introduction: The World as a Stereogram

2014

This paper presents the historically most important theories of how visual perception is made spatial in the cognitive processing of the sensory input to the eye. All of them involve active engagement of the mind. Firstly, in the medieval theories physiological processes developed three-dimensional imagery in the brain, and active mental processing was needed to build coherence in the perceptual experience as a whole but not to yield the basic idea of spatiality. Secondly, according to Descartes, the eyes produced a unified two-dimensional visual image that was neurally transmitted to the inner surface of the brain. The innate conception of three-dimensional spatiality was superimposed inte…

Cognitive scienceVisual perceptionConceptualizationmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesAgency (philosophy)Cognition06 humanities and the artsRepresentation (arts)Experiential learning050105 experimental psychology060104 historyPerception0501 psychology and cognitive sciences0601 history and archaeologyPsychologyCoherence (linguistics)media_common
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Internalismi, eksternalismi ja keskiaikainen havaintofilosofia

2017

Internalismin ja eksternalismin välisellä erottelulla on nykyepistemologiassa keskeinen asema, ja käsiteparia käytetään myös mielentilojen sisältöä koskevissa keskusteluissa. Erottelun keskeinen ajatus on yksinkertainen. Internalismi esittää, että intentionaalinen mielentila (havainto, uskomus ja niin edelleen) voidaan identifioida ottamatta subjektin suhdetta ulkomaailmaan millään tavalla huomioon. Mielentila on syntymisensä jälkeen itsenäinen, ja se voidaan tunnistaa pelkästään subjektille sisäisten tekijöiden perusteella. Eksternalismi puolestaan perustuu ajatukseen, että mielentilat ovat välttämättä suhteessa ympäristöön eikä niitä voi niiden syntymisen jälkeenkään identifioida viittaam…

eksternalismiinternalismi611 FilosofiaTuomas AkvinolaineneducationsubjektitWilhelm Ockhamilainenkeskiajan filosofiahavaintofilosofiasubjekti (filosofia)
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