Aquinas's Theory of Perception: An Analytic ReconstructionOxford University Press, 2016 - 353 Anthony J. Lisska presents a new analysis of Thomas Aquinas's theory of perception. While much work has been undertaken on Aquinas's texts, little has been devoted principally to his theory of perception and less still on a discussion of inner sense. The thesis of intentionality serves as the philosophical backdrop of this analysis while incorporating insights from Brentano and from recent scholarship. The principal thrust is on the importance of inner sense, a much-overlooked area of Aquinas's philosophy of mind, with special reference to the vis cogitativa. Approaching the texts of Aquinas from contemporary analytic philosophy, Lisska suggests a modest 'innate' or 'structured' interpretation for the role of this inner sense faculty. Dorothea Frede suggests that this faculty is an 'embarrassment' for Aquinas; to the contrary, the analysis offered in this book argues that were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas's philosophy of mind would be an embarrassment. By means of this faculty of inner sense, Aquinas offers an account of a direct awareness of individuals of natural kinds--referred to by Aquinas as incidental objects of sense--which comprise the principal ontological categories in Aquinas's metaphysics. By using this awareness of individuals of a natural kind, Aquinas can make better sense out of the process of abstraction using the active intellect (intellectus agens). Were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas would be unable to account for an awareness of the principal ontological category in his metaphysics. |
Spis treści
On Reconstructing Thomas Aquinass Theory of Perception | 1 |
Setting the Problem History and Context | 8 |
Aquinas on Intentionality | 32 |
Aquinas and Empiricism From Aquinas to Brentano and Beyond | 64 |
Epistemological Dispositions Causal Powers and the Human Person | 91 |
Objects and Faculties Teleology in Sensation | 120 |
Preconditions of Visual Awareness Object and Medium | 149 |
The Necessary Conditions for Perception A Triadic Relation | 166 |
The Sensus Communis The First of the Internal Sense Faculties | 194 |
The Imagination and Phantasia A Histor ical Muddle | 219 |
The Vis Cogitativa On Perceiving the Individual | 237 |
The Role of Phantasmsin Inner Sense Part 1 | 273 |
The Role of Phantasms in Inner Sense Part 2 | 299 |
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