Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism

David Bennett was a Research Associate in Representation and Reality research programme at the University of Gothenburg. He specialises in the philosophical and theological controversies of the 9th-10th century Islamicate world, particularly the early development of Muʿtazilite thought. He has written on pre-Avicennan accounts of sense perception, veridical dreams, and conceptualization, and he is currently working on a monograph about atoms.Juhana Toivanen is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Jyväskylä, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg. He has published widely on medieval philosophy of mind, including a monograph Perception and the Internal Senses (Brill 2013). Currently he is working, among other things, on medieval conceptions of human sociability.

• Chapter 1. Bennett, David and Toivanen, Juhana. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Ganson, Todd. Aristotle on Perception as Representation.- Chapter 3. Kalderon, Mark Eli. Perception as Presentation: Aristotle and Theaetetus..- Chapter 4. Hangai, Attila. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Simultaneous Perception.- Chapter 5. Coda, Elisa. Common Sense in Themistius and its Reception in the pseudo-Philoponus and Avicenna.- Chapter 6. Kaukua, Jari. On Common Sense, Estimation, and the Soul’s Unity in Avicenna.- Chapter 7. Hassan, Laura. Sense Perception in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī: A Theologian’s Encounter with Avicennan Psychology.- Chapter 8. McGinnis, Jon. Setting One’s Sights on Sight: Observations on Sense Perception in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī.- Chapter 9. Robert, Aurélien. John of Jandun on Sense Perception and Instantaneous Change.- Chapter 10. Ebbesen, Sten. Radulphus Brito, John of Jandun, and Alexander on Relational Nature of Perception.- Chapter 11. Grellard, Christophe. Attention, Recognition, and Error in Nicole Oresme’s Psychology.- Chapter 12. Silva, José Filipe. Activity, Judgment, and Recognition in Nicole Oresme’s Philosophy of Perception.