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A Note on Stumpf’s History of Active Intellection
2020Carl Stumpf, in his Spinozastudien, presents the Aristotelico-Scholastic thesis of the “parallelism” between mental acts and contents, i.e., the thesis that “the essential differences and divisions of the acts run in parallel to those of the contents, since they are determined in their specificity by the latter.” In his paper, Stumpf also distinguishes
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Intellect and Intellectual Activity in Buridan’s Psychology
2017Zupko’s chapter deals with transduction, the cognitive psychology of the transmission of sensory information for intellectual processing. This theory mentions three kinds of mental acts: understanding (intelligere), believing (credere), and attending to (se convertere ad). We can understand, or think, only one thought at a time, but that thought can be
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Intellectics Fundamentals in a Professional Activity of a Future Bachelor
2019The article describes a new course on “Intellectics fundamentals in a professional activity of future Bachelors” -into the curricula of Russian Universities. The following issues are solved: the reasons for a new course introduction; its contents; possibilities and forms of its introduction into the current curricula; the place of the course in the ...
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Averroes on the Active Intellect as the Cause of Human Thought
1992Abstract Although he repeatedly revised his position on the active intellect’s role as a cause of sublunar existence, Averroes remained firm throughout his career regarding the active intellect’s nature. Like his predecessors among the Arabic Aristotelians, he consistently construed it as an incorporeal substance transcending the ...
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Averroes On Emanation And On The Active Intellect As A Cause Of Existence
1992Abstract The present chapter will examine Averroes’ attempts to determine, first, the causal connections obtaining within the realm of incorporeal intelligences, and, secondly, the active intellect’s role as a cause of existence in the sublunar realm.
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Avicenna, Aquinas, and the Active Intellect
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