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Intentionality in Medieval AugustinianismPhänomenologische Forschungen 2018 (2): 26-44. 2018.Since Brentano, intentionality has become a key feature of debates within philosophy of mind and epistemology, expressing the directedness and the aboutness of mental acts. In recent decades, a wide range of studies has shown the historical background of this concept beyond the historical sources Brentano himself acknowledged. Augustine (354–430) has been prominently mentioned in some of these studies, the focus of which has mostly been on the aboutness aspect, that is to say on how this mental …Read more
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Perceptual Judgement in Late Medieval Perspectivist PsychologyIn Daniel Heider, Lukáš Lička & Marek Otisk (eds.), Perception in Scholastics and Their Interlocutors, Filosofia. 2017.
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59Nicholas of Cusa on Rational PerceptionBulletin de Philosophie Medievale 59 177-213. 2017.Despite being one of the major figures in late medieval thought and being the subject of numerous studies, certain topics concerning the Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa remain in need of further investigation. One of these is an aspect of his theory of cognition: his account of sense perception. It is our aim in this study to systematically look at his scattered remarks on the topic and make a number of suggestions as to the nature of his thought on how we come to know external things. It is not our p…Read more
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32Robert Kilwardby on Negative JudgementTopoi 1-11. 2018.In this article, I discuss Robert Kilwardby’s theory of judgement and consider its implications for his view of truth and falsity. I start by considering Kilwardby’s claim that truth and falsity are primarily found in composite thought, i.e. judgement. I then examine his distinction between two different kinds of being, namely real and conceptual, arguing that different kinds of true judgement, according to Kilwardby, have different kinds of existential import, either real or merely conceptual. …Read more
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21Notule libri Priorum (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (4): 388-390. 2017.The critical edition of Robert Kilwardby’s Notule libri Priorum by Thom and Scott is a great scholarly achievement. The edition of the thirteenth-century Dominican’s commentary to Aristotle’s Prior...
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19Introduction: Assimilation and Representation in Medieval Theories of CognitionVivarium 57 (3-4): 223-243. 2019.The articles in this issue are a selection of the papers presented at the conference Knowledge as Assimilation, held at the University of Helsinki on 9-11 June 2017. The conference was the result of a collaboration between two research groups that have been established in Finland and Sweden from 2013 onwards: the research project Rationality in Perception: Transformations of Mind and Cognition 1250-1550, funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the University of Helsinki, and the re…Read more
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16II—PerceptivenessAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 91 (1): 43-61. 2017.Augustine is often credited for upholding a theory of active perception, whereby our acquaintance with ordinary material objects and their properties cannot be explained by the causal efficaciousness of these objects. In a previous work, I attempted to connect this theory with the account of perception found in his treatise On the Trinity. Mark Kalderon has challenged this ‘reconciliationist’ reading, claiming that in this work Augustine admits to a strong causal role of the object in bringing a…Read more
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16Hertz e as Concepções de Linguagem e Filosofia do TractatusPáginas de Filosofía 1 (1): 122-141. 2009.
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The chameleonic mind : the activity versus the actuality of perceptionIn Elena Băltuță (ed.), Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries, Investigating Medieval Philoso. 2019.
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11Robert KilwardbyOxford University Press. 2020.Robert Kilwardby is a central figure in late medieval philosophy and theology, but key areas of his thought still remain unexamined in a systematic way. This book offers a comprehensive overview of his works, ranging from topics in logic to theology, done in a way that is accessible to non-specialists and to anyone interested in medieval thought.
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15Rationality in perception in medieval philosophy (edited book)Brill. 2023.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 instan…Read more
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8Agostinho, Anselmo e Kilwardby Sobre a Linguagem MentalPhilosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (34): 157-179. 2009.In the present article I examine Robert Kilwardby’s reading of Augustine’s and Anselm’s theories of the verbum mentis. The article is divided into three sections. In the first, I examine how Kilwardby’s criterion for personal distinction within the divine Trinity is applied to the powers of the rational soul. Kilwardby considers Anselm’s understanding of the Augustinian solution unable to support the real distinction of persons. In the two remaining sections, I inspect the two models of thinking…Read more
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6From Dominican to Dominican: Osmund Lewry on Robert KilwardbyNew Blackfriars 102 (1101): 623-636. 2021.New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1101, Page 623-636, September 2021.
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15Medieval philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps: by Peter Adamson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 672, £25.00 (hb), ISBN: 978-0-19-884240-8 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (3): 562-565. 2021.Fortunately – and perhaps surprisingly, due to the size of a field which remains absent from most philosophy departments, especially in the Anglophone world – medieval philosophy is awash with exce...
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34Perceptual Errors in Late Medieval PhilosophyIn Brian Glenney & José Filipe Silva (eds.), The Senses and the History of Philosophy, . pp. 106-130. 2019.Perception of the external world is an essential part of the animal (including human) life, both as a source of knowledge and as a way to survive. Medieval authors accepted this view, and despite general concerns about the reliability of the senses in the acquisition of certain and objective knowledge, they thought that for the most part our perceptual system gets things right when it comes to the perceptual features of things—but not always. Our article focuses on thirteenth- and fourteenth-cen…Read more
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26Medieval philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps Medieval philosophy: a history of philosophy without any gaps, by Peter Adamson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 672, £25.00(hb), ISBN: 978-0-19-884240-8 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (3): 562-565. 2021.Fortunately – and perhaps surprisingly, due to the size of a field which remains absent from most philosophy departments, especially in the Anglophone world – medieval philosophy is awash with exce...
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20Robert Kilwardby on Negative JudgementTopoi 39 (3): 667-677. 2020.In this article, I discuss Robert Kilwardby’s theory of judgement and consider its implications for his view of truth and falsity. I start by considering Kilwardby’s claim that truth and falsity are primarily found in composite thought, i.e. judgement. I then examine his distinction between two different kinds of being, namely real and conceptual, arguing that different kinds of true judgement, according to Kilwardby, have different kinds of existential import, either real or merely conceptual. …Read more
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112The Senses and the History of Philosophy (edited book)Routledge. 2019.The study of perception and the role of the senses have recently risen to prominence in philosophy and are now a major area of study and research. However, the philosophical history of the senses remains a relatively neglected subject. Moving beyond the current philosophical canon, this outstanding collection offers a wide-ranging and diverse philosophical exploration of the senses, from the classical period to the present day. Written by a team of international contributors, it is divided into …Read more
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15A identidade no mundo das religiões: a região fronteiriçaHorizonte 3 (5): 142-151. 2004.O tema em questão aborda, com base nas reflexões realizadas pelos teólogos inclusivistas abertos, as relações existentes de incompatibilidade ou compatibilidade entre a identidade religiosa cristã e a abertura ao mundo pluralista religioso pós-moderno. Constantemente presentes, como pilares do arcabouço teórico utilizado, aparecerão as reflexões daqueles estudiosos que, cônscios da realidade plural do mundo religioso contemporâneo, e não contentes com uma identidade amarrada somente à tradição e…Read more
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23Active Perception in the History of Philosophy: From Plato to Modern Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2014.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 accounts of perception that stress the passivity of percipients in coming to know the external world. Special attention is paid to the psychological and physiological mechanisms of perception, rational and …Read more
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29American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 220American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87 (1). 2013.Books Received listing for: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Journal of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Winter2013, Vol. 87 Issue 1, p219-220. 2p.
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53Potentially Human? Aquinas on Aristotle on Human GenerationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (1): 3-21. 2015.Thomas Aquinas describes embryological development as a succession of vital principles, souls, or substantial forms of which the last places the developing being in its own species. In the case of human beings this form is the rational soul. Aquinas' well-known commitment to the view that there is only one substantial form for each composite and that a substantial form directly informs prime matter leads to the conclusion that the succession of soul kinds is non-cumulative. The problem is that t…Read more
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208The Active Nature of the Soul in Sense Perception: Robert Kilwardby and Peter OliviVivarium 48 (3): 245-278. 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. W…Read more
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A Criticism Of Leibniz¿s Views On The Ontological ArgumentDiálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 31 (68): 183. 1996.
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19Alma humana e pluralismo de formas em Roberto KilwardbyRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 19 (37): 105-148. 2010.
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39Robert Kilwardby on the Human Soul examines Kilwardby’s role in conciliating Aristotelian and Augustinian views on the soul, soul-body relation, and cognition.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Professor
Areas of Specialization
20th Century Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |