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The illuminative function of the agent intellect

British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2018
ABSTRACTThomas Aquinas argues that the agent intellect's function is to abstract an intelligible species from a phantasm. However, insofar as he claims that the intelligible species is not present in the phantasm, it is unclear how the agent intellect accomplishes this task.
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Agent Intellects: Pattern as a Form of Thought

Architectural Design, 2006
AbstractIntegrating qualities and aspects particular to their previously independent practices, the work of Ed Keller and Carla Leitao of collaborative design and research practice a|Um Studio spans scales and sites of application. The practice embodies a collective intelligence in a number of ways.
Ed Keller, Carla Leitao
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Agent Intellect and Primal Sensibility In Husserl

1996
This paper is in many ways a conversation with Iso Kern about his profound meditations and monumental research on Husserl’s theory of intellect. For the purpose of this conference it centers on several references to the Aristotelian-Scholastic term, agent intellect, which we find in Ideas II. These rich texts, however, have parallels elsewhere in other
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Avicenna's Agent Intellect as a Completing Cause

History of Philosophy Quarterly
Abstract Avicenna says that intellectual cognition involves the emanation of an intelligible form by the ‘agent intellect’ upon the human mind. This paper argues that in order to understand why he says this, we need to think of intellectual cognition as a special case of a much more general phenomenon.
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The Unpleasantness With The Agent Intellect In Meister Eckhart

2009
The whole of creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. Now, it makes sense that man is waiting for redemption, for it was man who sinned in the first place. But why should the whole of creation be redeemed? If man returns to God through the Incarnation, then through him the whole of creation returns to its origin. It shall be noted that,
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Gersonides on the Possibility of Conjunction with the Agent Intellect

AJS Review, 1978
In De anima 3. 5 Aristotle distinguished two aspects in the activity of intellection or knowing: one active, the other passive. His remarks are notoriously obscure, and they have occasioned an enormous exegetical literature from antiquity to our own day.
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The relations between agent performances and their intellective abilities in mix-games

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007
Abstract This paper studies the relations between agent performances and their intellective abilities in mix-games in which there are two groups of agents: one group plays a minority game and the other plays a majority game. These two groups have different historical memories and different time horizons.
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L'analogie entre lumière et intellect agent dans le De anima

2021
Au traité De l'âme, Aristote pose l'existence d'un intellect agent avec une grande économie de moyens en utilisant, entre autres, l'analogie avec la lumière. La façon dont il utilise cette similitude est novatrice par rapport à ses prédécesseurs et nous donne à voir combien cette perspective lui est propre. La lumière ne lui sert pas à rendre compte de
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AGENT INTELLECT AND PHANTASMS. ON THE PRELIMINARIES OF PERIPATETIC ABSTRACTION

2004
This paper discusses some aspects of the controversies regarding the operation of the agent intellect on sensory images. I selectively consider views developed between the 13th century and the beginning of the 17th century, focusing on positions which question the need for a (distinct) agent intellect or argue for its essential “inactivity” with ...
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The Human and Mortal Agent Intellect of Aristotles De Anima

In De Anima III.5, Aristotle draws a distinction between a passive intellect and an agent intellect, distinction which has led post-Aristotelian scholars to propose two different interpretations on the nature of latter. The first interpretation claims that the agent intellect is Aristotles god, while the other one claims that the agent intellect is the
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