Species Intelligibilis: From Perception to Knowledge : Ii. Renaissance Controversies, Later Scholasticism, and the Elimination of the Intelligible S (002) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) - Hardcover

Spruit, Leen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004103961 ISBN 13: 9789004103962

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Medieval discussions of mental representation were constrained in essential ways by Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of intelligible species. Aquinas' view of a formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge was not universally accepted. In particular, after his death, a long series of controversies developed about the necessity of intelligible species. (These were analyzed in the first volume of this study.) The first part of this book deals with Renaissance controversies, discussing Peripatetics, Neoplatonics, and a group of relatively independent authors. In the second part, developments of late Scholasticism, and the elimination of the intelligible species in modern non-Aristotelian philosophy are scrutinized. Particular attention is paid to the possible roots of the seventeenth-century theories of ideas in traditional philosophy.

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About the Author:

Leen Spruit received his Ph.D. in philosophy (1987) from the University of Amsterdam. He has been research fellow at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht. His main interests are in the history of Medieval and early modern epistemology. He currently lives in Rome.

Review:

"L'ouvrage offre ainsi un aperçu complet de la question. C.T., qui a bénéficié de maints travaux auxquels il fait référence, rend compte des enjeux propres à chacun des protagonistes."
É.H. Wéber, Revue des Sciences Philos. & Theol., 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 9004103961
• ISBN 13: 9789004103962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608