Active Perception in the History of Philosophy

• 1. Introduction: The World as a Stereogram; José Filipe Silva and Mikko Yrjönsuuri.- 2. Plato: Interaction Between the External Body and the Perceiver in the Timaeus; Pauliina Remes.- 3. Activity, Passivity, and Perceptual Discrimination in Aristotle; Klaus Corcilius.- 4. On Activity and Passivity in Perception: Aristotle, Philoponus, and Pseudo-Simplicius; Miira Tuominen.- 5. Augustine on Active Perception; José Filipe Silva.- 6. Avicenna on the Soul’s Activity in Perception; Jari Kaukua.- 7. Medieval Theories of Active Perception: An Overview; José Filipe Silva.- 8. Agent Sense in Averroes and Latin Averroism; Jean-Baptiste Brenet.- 9. Active Perception from Nicholas of Cusa to Thomas Hobbes; Cees Leijenhorst.-10. Seeing Distance; Mikko Yrjönsuuri.- 11. Descartes and Active Perception; Cecilia Wee.- 12 Locke and Active Perception; Vili Lähteenmäki.- 13. Spinoza on Activity in Sense Perception; Valtteri Viljanen.-14. Berkeley and Activity in Visual Perception; Ville Paukkonen.-15. Activity and Passivity in Theories of Perception: Descartes to Kant; Gary Hatfield.

From the book reviews: "The volume consists of three sets of papers: one on ancient, one on medieval, and one on early modern philosophy. ... this book is a valuable source for students and scholars interested in the history of philosophical psychology. Most of the papers are accessible to a broad audience. Many of the contributors interestingly qualify the idea that there is a clear-cut distinction to be made between passive and active accounts of perception." (Han Thomas Adriaenssen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, October, 2014)