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Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages

Robert Pasnau
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In this article, the veil of the species is described as a metaphor for the invisible nature of the human body and its relation to the concept of intentionality and intentionality made mysterious.
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Introduction Part I. Fudamentals: 1. Immateriality and Intentionality 2. Intentionality made mysterious 3. Form and representation 4. Passivity and attention Part II. Representations and realism: 5. Are species superfluous? 6. Aquinas and direct realism 7. The veil of the species 8. Word and concept.

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Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler

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The Hellenistic philosophers

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The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the parts of later medieval philosophy that are most readily recognisable as philosophical to a student of twenty-first-century philosophy, focusing on logical and analytic studies in the late Middle Ages.
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The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

TL;DR: In this paper, Aertsen presents an overview of Aquinas's philosophy in its historical setting in the context of Islamic and Jewish thinkers, and discusses the relationship between the two worlds.
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Verbum: word and idea in Aquinas

TL;DR: Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas as discussed by the authors is a product of Lonergan's eleven years of study of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, which is considered by many to be a breakthrough in the history of Listergan's theology and a foundation upon which his later contributions were constructed.
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Theories of Vision from Al-Kindi to Kepler

C B Spurgin
- 01 Mar 1977 - 
TL;DR: Lindberg as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the fact that we'see' things 'the right way up' was a long lasting obstacle to the realization that there might be an inverted image on the retina.