Introduction: On Reconstructing Thomas Aquinas's Theory of
Perception
1: Setting the Problem: History and Context: Aquinas's Realist
Theory of Perception
2: Aquinas on Intentionality
3: Aquinas and Empiricism: From Aquinas to Brentano and Beyond
4: Epistemological Dispositions: Causal Powers and the Human
Person
5: Objects and Faculties: Teleology and Sensation
6: Preconditions for Visual Awareness: Object and Medium
7: The Necessary Conditions for Perception: A Triadic Relation
8: The Sensus Communis: The First of the Internal Sense
Faculties
9: The Imagination and Phantasia: An Historical Muddle
10: The Vis Cogitativa: On Perceiving the Individual Primary
Substance
11: The Role of Phantasms in Inner Sense: Part One
12: The Role of Phantasms in Inner Sense: Part Two
Bibliography
Index
Anthony J. Lisska is Maria Theresa Barney Professor of Philosophy
at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. His work in medieval
philosophy focuses on natural law theory and the philosophy of
Thomas Aquinas. The Clarendon Press published his Aquinas's Theory
of Natural Law. Recent essays on natural law theory appeared in The
Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, Reason, Religion and
Natural Law, and The Routledge Companion
to Ethics. In 2006, he served as national president of the American
Catholic Philosophical Association. He received the Carnegie
Foundation United States Baccalaureate Colleges National Professor
of the Year Award in 1994. He served as
Academic Dean of the College and the Founding Director of Denison's
Honors Program.
This is a challenging and rewarding book. It will be, for a long
time, essential reading for graduates and scholars interested in
Aquinas's philosophy of mind. It is impressively thorough
concerning Aquinas's texts and recent scholarship on the same.
*Robbie Moser, Speculum*
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