Aquinas’s Theory of Perception: An Analytic Reconstruction
Anthony J. Lisska
Abstract
This book presents an analysis of the principal texts used by Thomas Aquinas in developing his theory of perception. Little work has been devoted principally to his theory of perception and less still to inner sense. The thesis of intentionality serves as the philosophical backdrop of this analysis, which incorporates the insights not only of Franz Brentano but also of Anthony Kenny and John Haldane. The principal emphasis is on the importance of inner sense, with special reference to the vis cogitativa. By means of this faculty of inner sense, Aquinas offers an account of a direct awareness o ... More
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas, theory of perception, inner sense, Brentano, Anthony Kenny, John Haldane, vis cogitativa, Dorothea Frede, intellectus agens
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198777908 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2016 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198777908.001.0001 |
