Active Perception in the History of Philosophy From Plato to Modern Philosophy
The aim of the present work is to show the roots of the conception of perception as an active process, tracing the history of its development from Plato to modern philosophy. The contributors inquire into what activity is taken to mean in different theories, challenging traditional historical accoun...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The World as a Stereogram; José Filipe Silva and Mikko Yrjönsuuri
- 2. Plato: Interaction Between the External Body and the Perceiver in the Timaeus; Pauliina Remes
- 3. Activity, Passivity, and Perceptual Discrimination in Aristotle; Klaus Corcilius
- 4. On Activity and Passivity in Perception: Aristotle, Philoponus, and Pseudo-Simplicius; Miira Tuominen
- 5. Augustine on Active Perception; José Filipe Silva
- 6. Avicenna on the Soul’s Activity in Perception; Jari Kaukua
- 7. Medieval Theories of Active Perception: An Overview; José Filipe Silva
- 8. Agent Sense in Averroes and Latin Averroism; Jean-Baptiste Brenet
- 9. Active Perception from Nicholas of Cusa to Thomas Hobbes; Cees Leijenhorst.-10. Seeing Distance; Mikko Yrjönsuuri
- 11. Descartes and Active Perception; Cecilia Wee
- 12 Locke and Active Perception; Vili Lähteenmäki
- 13. Spinoza on Activity in Sense Perception; Valtteri Viljanen.-14. Berkeley and Activity in Visual Perception; Ville Paukkonen.-15. Activity and Passivity in Theories of Perception: Descartes to Kant; Gary Hatfield.