Overview
- New perspectives on the internal senses in the Aristotelian tradition
- Covers Greek, Arabic and Latin philosophy of mind
- Draws connections to contemporary philosophy of mind
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind (SHPM, volume 22)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Central Questions in Their Historical Contexts
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Front Matter
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Case Studies: From Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Francisco Suárez
- Internal Senses
- Jodocus Trutfetter
- Logic of Imagination
- The Aristotelian Tradition
- The Estimative Faculty
- Internal Senses and Aristotle’s Cognitive Theory
- Medieval Views of Faculty Psychology
- Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory
- Estimative Power as a Social Sense
- Avicenna’s Doctrine of Knowledge
- Jodocus Trutfetter on Internal Senses
- Imagination, Non-Existence, Impossibility
- Aristotelian tradition and contemporary philosophy of mind
- memory, imagination and estimation
- mechanisms of memory and recollection
- composite imagination in Avicenna’s philosophy of mind
- development of internal senses
About this book
This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses. The first part of the volume is devoted to the central question of whether or not any internal senses exist in Aristotle’s philosophy of mind and, if so, how many and how they are individuated. The provocative claim of chapter one is that Aristotle recognizes no such internal sense. His medieval Latin interpreters, on the other hand, very much thought that Aristotle did introduce a number of internal senses as shown in the second chapter.
The second part of the volume contains a number of case studies demonstrating the philosophical background of some of the most influential topics covered by the internal senses in the Aristotelian tradition and in contemporary philosophy of mind. The focus of the case studies is on memory, imagination and estimation. Chapters introduce the underlying mechanisms of memory and recollection taking its cue from Aristotle butreaching into early modern philosophy as well as studying composite imagination in Avicenna’s philosophy of mind. Further topics include the Latin reception of Avicenna’s estimative faculty and the development of the internal senses as well as offering an account of the logic of objects of imagination.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Seyed N. Mousavian (PhD Alberta, 2008) is a research fellow in Representation and Reality at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden and an associate professor of philosophy at the School of Analytic Philosophy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. His research interests include philosophy of language, metaphysics and Medieval Arabic philosophy. He has published in Mind and Language, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Synthese among other places.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition
Editors: Seyed N. Mousavian, Jakob Leth Fink
Series Title: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33408-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33407-9Published: 20 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33410-9Published: 20 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33408-6Published: 19 March 2020
Series ISSN: 1573-5834
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9922
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 171
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Medieval Philosophy