
Rationality in Perception in Medieval Philosophy
Jose Filipe Silva(Editor)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 19. January 2023
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-90-04-53707-1 (ISBN)
Description
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, Joel Biard, Ve?ronique Decaix, Christian Kny, Lydia Schumacher, Jose? Filipe Silva, and Joerg Alejandro Tellkamp.
Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Joel Biard, Ve?ronique Decaix, Christian Kny, Lydia Schumacher, Jose? Filipe Silva, and Joerg Alejandro Tellkamp.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
495 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-53707-1 (9789004537071)
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Jose Filipe Silva (Ph.D. 2009, University of Porto), is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He has published numerous books and articles on medieval philosophy, from Augustine to the Conimbricenses, including Robert Kilwardby (Oxford Unniversity Press, 2020).