Showing items with similar title or keywords.

• “Like Ants in a Colony We Do Our Share” : Political Animals in Medieval Philosophy 

  Toivanen, Juhana (De Gruyter, 2021)

  This chapter discusses the reception of the Aristotelian concept of ‘political animal’ in thirteenth and fourteenth century Latin philosophy. Aristotle thought that there are other political animals besides human beings, ...

• Animal consciousness : Peter Olivi on cognitive functions of the sensitive soul 

  Toivanen, Juhana (University of Jyväskylä, 2009)

   

• Medieval Commentators on Simultaneous Perception : An Edition of Commentaries on Aristotle's De sensu et sensato 7 

  Toivanen, Juhana (Koebenhavns Universitet, Saxo-Institutet, 2021)

• Perceiving As : Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy 

  Toivanen, Juhana (Brill, 2020)

  This chapter focuses on thirteenth-century Latin discussions concerning the psychological processes that explain some of the most sophisticated features of perceptual experience. Sense perception primarily conveys information ...

• Cognitive Dispositions in the Psychology of Peter John Olivi 

  Toivanen, Juhana (Springer, 2018)

  This chapter discusses Peter John Olivi’s (1248–1298) conception of the role of dispositions (habitus) in sensory cognition from metaphysical and psychological perspectives. It shows that Olivi makes a distinction between ...