Search results for "history of philosophy"

Perceptual Self-Awareness in Seneca, Augustine, and Olivi

2013

This article traces the philosophical idea of self-perception from the times of ancient Stoicism to the thirteenth century by analyzing the views of Seneca, Augustine, and Olivi. The central argument is that they defend the same idea according to which self-preservation and the appropriate use of one’s body requires awareness thereof, despite the obvious contextual differences and the uncertainty of direct historical connections between the authors. They think that this kind of self-awareness does not belong only to human beings, because irrational animals need to perceive their bodies, the functions of their bodily parts, and to perceive themselves as living beings in order to act appropri…

Medieval Commentators on Simultaneous Perception : An Edition of Commentaries on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato 7

2021

Hume, David

2013

David Hume (1711—1776) oli skotlantilainen filosofi, historioitsija ja esseisti. Humea pidetään yleisesti merkittävimpänä englanninkielisenä filosofina. Hänen monipuolinen filosofinen työnsä kattaa lähes kaikki filosofian osa-alueet: tieto-opin, metafysiikan ja ontologian, mielenfilosofian ja tahdonvapauden ongelman, matematiikan filosofian, tieteen- ja luonnonfilosofian, yhteiskunta- ja moraalifilosofian, metaetiikan, estetiikan sekä uskonnonfilosofian. Nykyisestä Hume-tutkimuksesta suurin osa on historiallista, mutta monet hänen filosofiansa keskeiset teemat, kuten kausaliteetti, mielen kimpputeoria, induktion ongelma, sekä arvojen ja tosiseikkojen erottelu, ovat olennaisia myös nykyfilos…

Essays on early modern conceptions of consciousness: Descartes, Cudworth, and Locke

2009

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

2010

This 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 there ar…

Adorno's tragic vision

2018

This dissertation deals with the tragic vision that motivates certain key aspects of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy. While in the formative early work, the Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-written with Max Horkheimer, the tragic views are clear, in later works, such as the Aesthetic Theory and the Negative Dialectics, they are only implicit. The study reconstructs the tragic vision found in the Dialectic of Enlightenment and uses it as a key to understand Adorno’s mature philosophy. A tragic vision is born when specific philosophical convictions regarding agency and morality coalesce with certain ethical and political conditions. A tragic vision forms the grounds for tragic views. For Adorno,…

Benedetto Croce e ‘l’espressione che fa il mondo’

2022

L'Estetica di Croce è qui vista come fondamento linguistico del rapporto soggetto-oggetto, non come teoria dell'arte. Ciò consente di comprendere in modo relativamente innovativo l'atteggiamento che questa filosofia ha assunto nei confronti dell'idealismo, dello storicismo, della natura e della cultura. Croce’s Aesthetics is here seen as linguistic foundation of the subject- object relation, not as a theory of art. This makes it possible to understand in a relatively innovative way the stance this philosophy has taken in relation to idealism, historicism, nature and culture.

Essays concerning Hume's natural philosophy

2016

The subject of this essay-based dissertation is Hume’s natural philosophy. The dissertation consists of four separate essays and an introduction. These essays do not only treat Hume’s views on the topic of natural philosophy, but his views are placed into a broader context of history of philosophy and science, physics in particular. The introductory section outlines the historical context, shows how the individual essays are connected, expounds what kind of research methodology has been used, and encapsulates the research contributions of the essays. The first essay treats Newton’s experimentalist methodology in gravity research and its relation to Hume’s causal philosophy. It is argued tha…

Husserl's Transcendentalization of Mathematical Naturalism

2020

Abstract The paper aims to capture a form of naturalism that can be found “built-in” in phenomenology, namely the idea to take science or mathematics on its own, without postulating extraneous normative “molds” on it. The paper offers a detailed comparison of Penelope Maddy’s naturalism about mathematics and Husserl’s approach to mathematics in Formal and Transcendental Logic (1929). It argues that Maddy’s naturalized methodology is similar to the approach in the first part of the book. However, in the second part Husserl enters into a transcendental clarification of the evidences and presuppositions of the mathematicians’ work, thus “transcendentalizing” his otherwise naturalist approach t…