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...Peter Adamson 2. I discuss the parallel argumentation of Avicenna and Averroes in Adamson, 2021. There I agree with Ogden’s point (76) that Avicenna and Averroes both argued from the nature of the object of intellection to secure the nature of the subject of intellect, that is, inferring...

... in the intellect of God. Although other early moderns agreed that modal truths are in some way dependent on God, there were sharp disagreements surrounding two distinct questions: (1) On what in God do modal truths and modal truth-makers depend? (2) What is the manner(s) of dependence by which modal truths...

... of his absolutely simple first principle, the One (or the Good). (For Neoplatonists, the One is the ultimate source of all other existents through a causal series in which it produces a divine Intellect, Intellect produces Soul, and Soul produces the physical cosmos.) The One might seem to be a prime...

... that is “stable and likely to last” is to use the intellect unaided by the senses (23, 55, 73–75, 86, 94–96, 272, 278, 295). For “the fundamental principle of Descartes’ metaphysical epistemology [is] that the innate ideas of the human intellect, insofar as they provide clear and dis- tinct perceptions...

... contemplation in Aquinas. What sort of act is it, and how does it relate to other acts of intellect? What acts of contemplation are available in this present life, and how do those acts fit into a life of faith or a life devoted to philosophical or theological study? What contribution, if any, does...

... Chene often doesn’t bother to indicate in the main text which author he is quoting from). Second, the focus is on theo- ries of the soul in general, excluding those special problems that arise for the human soul. As a result, there is little here about the workings of intellect, free- dom...

... to describe these later-thirteenth-century debates as arising as the result of a “psychological turn” (1). What Hoffmann means by this is that the debate comes to revolve around the competing roles of intellect and will. Whether that’s distinctive of this period is itself doubtful, but even if it’s so...

... that became central to Western philosophy in later centuries. For instance, he draws attention to the importance of the relation between the intellect and the will (maintaining that the will is the supreme power of the soul, ruling over the intellect); he also presents arguments for the claim that he...

... endeavors in DA to explain the full range of life activities of organisms as diverse as plants, animals, and humans by reference to three basic psychological capacities: nutrition, perception, and intellect. The results of this approach are impressive: Johansen delivers an attractive interpretation of DA...

... expla- nations when informally discussing human action.5 For example, he begins the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect with the observation that most human action is directed toward “wealth, honor, or sensual pleasure.”6 He contrasts to these his own aim, namely, “love toward...

... is recollecting our innate knowledge of the Forms. His theory of recollection states that particular objects instantiate universal concepts in an imperfect way and that perception, by making us aware of their shortcomings, prompts the intellect to recollect the Form these objects fall short of. As a result...

... of philosophy: internal exegesis, external exegesis, his- torical philosophy, and the history of ideas. Stump examines Aquinas’s conception of wisdom as a virtue of speculative intellect. It is a matter of knowing God’s nature, action, and degrees. Stump explains the virtue of wisdom in relation...

... in the divine intellect, there would be no way to explain subjective experience. Furthermore, they would be prone to dissipating into infinite thought, since there would be nothing inherent to them to differentiate them. One of Renz's central claims is that if subjective experience is to be explainable...

... of intellect. Until they reform their practices, understanding is simply not possible for them. In other passages, Charles drops talk of Platonism, and contrasts Aristotle’s views with Plato’s (362-–63). Here the crucial difference Charles sees is that while Aristotle makes use of a posteriori claims...

... discussed above, it serves up insights on such difficult topics as the role of nous in the Analytics, the relation between the pro- ductive intellect and the object of knowledge in De Anima, and the nature of form in the Metaphysics. In its goal of presenting both faithful and philosophi- cally...

..., and the Good , 270 -308. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Curzer, Howard J. 1990 . “Criteria for Happiness in Nicomachean Ethics I 7 and X 6-8.” Classical Quarterly 40 : 421 -32. Gerson, Lloyd P. 2004 . “The Unity of Intellect in Aristotle's De Anima.” Phronesis 49 : 348 -73...

... . “Scotus on Universals.” Paper presented at the Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy , Cornell University, June 3 -5, Ithaca, NY. Jenkins, John. 1991 . “Aquinas on the Veracity of the Intellect.” Journal of Philosophy 88 : 623 -32. ____. 1996 . “Expositions of the Text...

... balancing act, for he wants to establish that the soul can actualize the body but still be separated from the body. Alas, the reasoning in this question seems to run in a circle: “The soul is subsistent, if the intellect is a part of the soul; the intellect is a part of the soul, if the soul...

... that became central to Western philosophy in later centuries. For instance, he draws attention to the importance of the relation between the intellect and the will (maintaining that the will is the supreme power of the soul, ruling over the intellect); he also presents arguments for the claim that he...

... in terms of divisible modes is, for Spinoza, to fail to grasp the way the world really is. Melamed tries (70n43) to explain this passage away by saying that, for Spinoza, there is a way of conceiving modes through the intellect. But, in light of the passage I have quoted, one might ask how can divisible...