Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition

Jakob Leth Fink (PhD Copenhagen 2009) is a postdoctoral researcher in Representation and Reality in the Aristotelian Tradition at Gothenburg University. His research interests cover Aristotle, the Aristotelian Tradition, ethics and dialectic. He has recently published on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and its medieval reception. Seyed N. Mousavian (PhD Alberta, 2008) is a research fellow in Representation and Reality at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden and an associate professor of philosophy at the School of Analytic Philosophy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran. His research interests include philosophy of language, metaphysics and Medieval Arabic philosophy. He has published in Mind and Language, Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, and Synthese among other places.

• Introduction: Jakob Leth Fink and Seyed Mousavian.- Central Questions.- Chapter 1: Internal Senses and Aristotle’s Cognitive Theory: Deborah Modrak.- Chapter 2: Stop Making Sense(s): some Late Medieval and Very Late Medieval Views of Faculty Psychology: José Filipe Silva.- Case Studies.- Chapter 3: Movements, Memory, and Mixture: Aristotle, Confusion, and the Historicity of Memory: John Sutton.- Chapter 4: Representation in Avicenna’s Doctrine of Knowledge: Meryem Sebti.- Chapter 5: Estimative Power as a Social Sense: Juhana Toivanen.- Chapter 6: Jodocus Trutfetter (c. 1460–1519) on Internal Senses: Pekka Kärkkäinen.- Chapter 7: Imagination, Non-Existence, Impossibility: Graham Priest.