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    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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    The essays in this book give the first comprehensive picture of the medieval development of philosophical theories concerning the nature of emotions and the influence they have on human choice.
  • Mechanisms of Sense perception (edited book)
    with Henrik Lagerlund
    Springer. forthcoming.
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    Peter John Olivi
    In H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 947--950. 2011.
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    Sophisms
    In H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1207--1208. 2011.
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    Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability. The achievements of medieval logic are made available to a wider philosophical public then the medievalists themselves. The three genres of logica moderna arising in a later Middle Ages are covered: obligations, insolubles and consequences - the first time these have been treated in such a unified way. The articles on obligations look at the role of logi…Read more
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    Finnish studies in the history of ancient and mediaeval philosophy
    Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 80 (1): 357-369. 2003.
    Finland is internationally known as one of the leading centers of twentieth century analytic philosophy. This volume offers for the first time an overall survey of the Finnish analytic school. The rise of this trend is illustrated by original articles of Edward Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Jaakko Hintikka. Contributions of Finnish philosophers are then systematically discussed in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, e…Read more
  • The Scholastic background of Cogito ergo sum
    Acta Philosophica Fennica 64 47-70. 1999.
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    Obligations and Conditionals
    Vivarium 53 (2-4): 322-335. 2015.
    The paper considers two kinds of medieval obligational disputations and the medieval genre of sophismata in relation to the kinds of inferences accepted in them. The main texts discussed are the anonymous Obligationes parisienses from the early 13th century and Richard Kilvington’s Sophismata from the early 14th century. Four different kinds of warranted transition from an antecedent to a consequent become apparent in the medieval discussions: the strong logical validity of basic propositional l…Read more
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    In this paper, Ockham's theory of an ideal language of thought is used to illuminate problems of interpretation of his theory of truth. The twentieth century idea of logical form is used for finding out what kinds of atomic sentences there are in OckhamÕs mental language. It turns out that not only the theory of modes of supposition, but also the theory of supposition in general is insufficient as a full theory of truth. Rather, the theory of supposition is a theory of reference, which can help …Read more
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    Free will and Self-control in Peter Olivi
    In Henrik Lagerlund & Mikko Yrjonsuri (eds.), Emotions and Choice From Boethius to Descartes, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 99--128. 2002.
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    Concordance to Descartes' "Meditationes de Prima Philosophia" (review)
    with Tuomo Aho
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1): 135-136. 1998.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Concordance to Descartes’ “Meditationes de Prima Philosophia.” by Katsuzo Murakami, Meguru Sasaki, Tetsuichi NishimuraTuomo Aho and Mikko YrjönsuuriKatsuzo Murakami, Meguru Sasaki, and Tetsuichi Nishimura. Concordance to Descartes’ “Meditationes de Prima Philosophia.” Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 1995. Pp. v + 355. Cloth, DM 198.00.This is a product from the Descartes database of Tokyo University scholars. It gives an accou…Read more
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    Norms and Modes of Thinking in Descartes (edited book)
    with Tuomo Aho and Suomen Filosofinen Yhdistys
    Societas Philosophica. 1999.