Search results for "Intellectual History"
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Integrating a Nexus: the history of political discourse and language policy research
2019
Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions and ideologies as discursive constructs. Such a version of soft constructivism underscoring the discursive nature of much of politics encourages historians to analyse past political discourses more systematically. Concepts such as nexus, historical body, mobility and discursive transfers borrowed from language research deepen our analytical understa…
Anthony Collins on the Status of Consciousness
2014
Anthony Collins (1676-1729) maintains that consciousness might be a material process or result from material processes. On the one hand, Collins accepts Locke’s view that from consciousness, i.e., the activity of thinking, we acquire no knowledge about the nature of the thinking substance. On the other, he takes seriously Samuel Clarke’s challenge that the thinking substance must be suitably unified because consciousness is unified. In this paper, I argue that, throughout his correspondence with Clarke, Collins maintains that consciousness signifies actual thinking and does not refer to the capacity of thinking. His main materialist thesis is that the powers of parts of material systems can…
O conceito de imagem-presença na arte da idade média
2011
Este artigo propõe situar as principais correntes de leitura da imagem na arte medieval e sublinha a aparição de uma matriz original de pensamento, o pensamento pela arte, entre 1950 e 2000. No centro dessa nova épistémé, afirmou-se o conceito de imagem-presença, discutido a partir de três exemplos de entre o ano mil e c., 1450 e de um diálogo interdisciplinar com a antropologia social e a filosofia das ciências. This article aims to contextualize the main currents in the interpretation of medieval images, underlining to appearance of an original matrix of thought, thinking through art, between 1950 and 2000. At the heart of the new épistémè, the concept of image-presence is put forward and…
Edwin A. Judge: The First Christians in the Roman World. Augustan and New Testament Essays
2009
Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories: Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes
2009
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 …
Subjectivity as a Non-Textual Standard of Interpretation in the History of Philosophical Psychology
2008
Contemporary caution against anachronism in intellectual history, and the currently mo mentous theoretical emphasis on subjectivity in the philosophy of mind, are two prevailing conditions that set puzzling constraints for studies in the history of philosophical psychol ogy. The former urges against assuming ideas, motives, and concepts that are alien to the historical intellectual setting under study, and combined with the latter suggests caution in relying on our intuitions regarding subjectivity due to the historically contingent charac terizations it has attained in contemporary philosophy of mind. In the face of these condi tions, our paper raises a question of what we call non-textual…