Active Cognition

Véronique Decaix is Associate Professor in Medieval Philosophy at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research interests are psychology, theories of cognition and metaphysics. In the framework of GRAMATA, UMR 7219 (Groupe Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Transmission Arabe) she is currently leading the research project “Memoria” on “Ancient and Medieval Theories of Memory”). Ana María Mora-Márquez is docent in Theoretical Philosophy at University of Gothenburg. She is the author of the book The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification (Brill) and of several articles on medieval epistemology, logic and philosophy of language. At present, she is the leader of a research project, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, about Aristotle’s Topics and its medieval reception.

• Chapter 1. Selective Attention Beyond Activity: Robert Kilwardby’s Theory of Perception (Elena Baltuta).- Chapter 2. From Agent to Active Sense: Was there an Agustinianism-Averroisant? (José Filipe da Silva).- Chapter 3. Cognition as Intellectual Constitution: Dietrich of Freiberg in Discussion with Thomas Aquinas (Véronique Decaix).- Chapter 4. Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on Active Intellectual Cognition (Frans de Haas).- Chapter 5. Explaining Sherlock’s Glance: On the Perception of Historical Past (Vincent Grondin).- Chapter 6. Epistemic Responsibility in an Occasionalist World: Malebranche’s Theory of Judgement (Stephan Schmid).- Chapter 7. A Note on Stumpf’s History of Active Intellection (Hamid Taieb).- Chapter 8. Three Jesuit Accounts of Cognition: Differences and Common Ground in the De anima Commentaries by Maldonado, Toledo and Dandini (1564-1610) (Anna Tropia).